dust bath

Dust bathing is often a way to use chemical communication.

One of their daily communal activities is a dust bath.

It often is seen dust bathing in small groups.

Four or five birds were taking a dust bath just outside the cellar doors.

I think I've got enough now for this morning, and it is time for a dust bath.

They seem to prefer sunny places in which to create these dust baths.

If mud is not available rhinos will take dust baths.

These birds typically find other means to stay clean and dry, such as taking a dust bath.

I have been longing for a good dust bath.

At a safer distance we stopped to watch the elephants give one another dust baths in the road.

They are occasionally known to descend to the ground and indulge in dust bathing.

Dust bathing has been extensively studied in the domestic hen.

It pulled clear with the motion of an elephant shrugging during a dust bath.

There is a dusty spot over in the lane where I take a dust bath every day."

Parasites are countered by taking dust baths in loose soil.

No differences in the relative durations of behavioral patterns within a single dust bath were found.

They also need a run or yard where they can exercise, take dust baths, eat, and drink.

It had been taking a dust bath.

Like all elephants, they enjoy bathing in rivers and they too have dust baths.

"To walk on the ground, scratch the earth, spread their wings, roost, take dust baths."

"Many species within the family Dipodidae participate in dust bathing.

Peripheral factors seem relatively unimportant in controlling dust bathing.

The desert lark takes frequent dust baths which ensures that it matches its environment.

These include sunning themselves, dust bathing and water bathing.

Q. Why do birds take dust baths?