headbobbing en · NOUN
Etymology
From head + bobbing.
Meanings
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(uncountable) A stereotypic animal behaviour in which the head bobs up and down.
A distinctive feature of the guinea pig's response to conspecific odors (particularly of the male's response to female urine odors) is a behavior we have called headbobbing.
1983, Robert Milton Silverstein, Dietland Müller-Schwarze, Chemical signals in vertebrates, volume 3:Cocaine induces a wide range of behaviors in rats, such as hyperlocomotion, excessive exploratory behavior, focused sniffing, headbobbing, as well as other repetitive purposeless behaviors.
2006, Monica Lisa Berlanga, Cholinergic Interneurons and Synaptic Reorganization within the Nucleus Accumbens Shell and Core: