Preening each other acts as a health check and way to negotiate parental duties if one bird is in poorer condition, new research suggests. DickDaniels /Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ...

Common Murres negotiate parental duties and coordinate efforts by preening. If one parent isn't feeling well they tell the other so they can switch duties to help their children.

No surprise, then, that the average Indian man spends a huge chunk of his day eating, sleeping and preening. His contribution to household work is among the lowest world-over.

Can Preening Contribute to Influenza A Virus Infection in Wild Waterbirds? PLoS One, June 25, 2010 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011315 ...

Preening ceremonies and swapping duties take place three to four times each day. What's very interesting is that the swaps don't always go smoothly. Ms.

But there's a larger lesson here, too: Moral preening often obscures not just self-interested capitalist accumulation but fraud. Angie Speaks is the cohost of the Low Society Podcast.

This past Friday, the singer David Johansen, perhaps best known as the debauched, preening front man of the New York Dolls, a band essential to the genesis of punk rock in New York City in the ...

A pair of preening rock pigeons captured by Canadian photographer Liron Gertsman won the grand prize in National Audubon Society’s annual photo contest. The winners of eight prizes across five ...

One cannot help but read it and feel that the biggest problem with U.S. foreign policy in the Obama era has been what can only be called Obama's preening self-regard.