Stage | Stage name | Behavior | Duration (sec) | Count per side/per stage |
I | Elliptical stroke | Rostral grooming: licking of the front paws or strokes around the nose and mouth | 1 | 4 |
II | Unilateral stroke | facial grooming, unilateral nose grooming | 0.25 | 2 |
III | Bilateral stroke | Bilateral grooming: strokes of the front toes around the ears on both sides, head grooming | 0.75 | 4 |
IV | Body grooming | The latter moves into other grooming movements (hind paws, genitals, tail scratching, and licking) that do not belong to the syntactic chain | 2 | 1 |