The phrase "aggressive grooming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing behaviors related to grooming that are forceful or assertive, often in relation to animals or social dynamics.
Example: "The dog displayed aggressive grooming behavior towards the other pets, making them uncomfortable."
Alternatives: "forceful grooming" or "intense grooming".
Aggressive grooming was scored when the IH mouse excessively groomed the SV mouse.
Here, like in our previous studies (51, 52), we defined the index of social dominance as the combination of two types of behaviors: "paw control" and "aggressive grooming".
Aggressive behaviours were scored when animals engaged in biting, upright boxing, aggressive mounting, chasing, induction of a submissive posture and aggressive grooming.
A similar pattern was observed in Microcebus murinus, where encounters between male and females were mainly aggressive, and grooming was only observed between female dyads or adults and subadults (Eberle & Kappeler 2004).
The authors and a field assistant collected mating, grooming, aggressive interactions, and scent marks via all-occurrences (221 hr; [54]), during daily continuous observations (about 11 h/day) on both in-group and out-group members.
They named him as one of "an army of aggressive conservative ideologues groomed for government service and bankrolled by the Koch brothers".
Their cases shone a spotlight on IS's aggressive efforts to groom young Westerners, particularly young girls, to join their cause.
Social interaction was assessed by the time spent interacting, including sniffing, following, crawling over or under, grooming, and aggressive behaviors.
We compared the distribution of play, grooming, and aggressive interactions across three conditions: OUT (resident/outgroup interactions), IN (resident/resident interactions in presence of outgroups) and BL-IN (baseline of resident/resident interactions in absence of outgroups).
In addition, positive correlations were observed between aggressive behavior and genital grooming (r = 0.678), social sniffing (r = 0.655), and following (r = 0.850).
