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Practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates
Geophagia (/ˌdʒiːəˈfeɪdʒ(i)ə/), also known as geophagy (/dʒiˈɒfədʒi/), is the intentional practice of consuming earth or soil-like substances such as
Geophagia
Compulsive eating of non-food items
Dermatophagia (skin) Emetophagia (vomit) Geomelophagia (raw potatoes) Geophagia (earth, soil, sand, clay, chalk) Hematophagia (vampirism) (blood) Hyalophagia
Pica_(disorder)
Haitian food
with a pungent aftertaste of dirt that lingers for hours. Ersatz good Geophagia – Practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates Mud pie Pica Sawdust
Mud_cookie
eating faeces Detritivore: eating particulate decaying organic matter Geophagia: eating inorganic earth Necrophage: eating carrion Osteophage: eating
List_of_feeding_behaviours
Ingestion of stones
1922 by Pyotr Dravert. In Russian literature the term may also refer to geophagia. Stones are found ingested by many animals. These called gastroliths.
Lithophagy
Practice of humans eating other humans
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Human_cannibalism
Geophagic material
African countries for pleasure, and by pregnant women as a cure for nausea. Geophagia is the practice of eating the earth, including soil and chalk. This practice
Calabash_chalk
Chemical elements essential for life
moving minerals up the food chain. Larger organisms may also consume soil (geophagia) or use mineral resources such as salt licks to obtain minerals. Finally
Mineral_(nutrient)
Mixture of water and any combination of soil, silt, sand, and clay
was a decisive factor in the infamous Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. Geophagia is the practice of eating earth or soil-like substances, also known as
Mud
Eating members of one's own species
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Cannibalism
Act of voluntarily ingesting feces
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Coprophagia
Practice of eating oneself
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Autocannibalism
Creature that preys on humans
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Man-eating_animal
Animals with more than 70% meat in their diets
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Hypercarnivore
Ecological niche involving feeding on blood
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Hematophagy
Organism capable of degrading and metabolising plastic
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Plastivore
Disease transmission via pathogens from fecal particles
that has been prepared in the presence of fecal matter; eating soil (geophagia); disease vectors, like houseflies, spreading contamination from inadequate
Fecal–oral_route
Type of interaction between species
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Parasitism
Extinct genus of elephant-like mammals
providing evidence of seasonal changes in its diet and probable evidence of geophagia during fixed times of the year. Gomphotherium likely originated in Africa
Gomphotherium
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively animal tissue
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Carnivore
Animal that can eat and survive on both plants and animals
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Omnivore
Practice of animals eating their own mating partners
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Sexual_cannibalism
Obsession with drinking blood
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Clinical_vampirism
Cell membrane engulfing a large particle
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Phagocytosis
Animal that feeds on carrion, dead plants, or refuse
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Scavenger
Bodily function of expelling intestinal gas from the anus
nodule Blumer's shelf Eating disorders Anorexia Anorexia nervosa Bulimia nervosa Binge eating disorder A/RFID Pica Trichophagia Pagophagia Geophagia
Flatulence
Animals that feed by straining food from water
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Filter_feeder
Organism that eats mostly fruit
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Frugivore
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively plant material
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Herbivore
Plants that consume animals
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Carnivorous_plant
Fine grained natural soil
additives Clay pit – Open-pit mining for the extraction of clay minerals Geophagia – Practice of eating earth or soil-like substrates London Clay – Low-permeable
Clay
Predator at the top of a food chain
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Apex_predator
Feeding livestock on forage
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Grazing
To feed by hunting and eating snakes
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Ophiophagy
Type of herbivory
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Browsing_(herbivory)
Biological interaction
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Predation
Animal that feeds on decomposing plant and animal parts as well as faeces
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Detritivore
American English pejorative for poor white people, especially in the American South
along with pellagra was endemic among poor Southern whites due to poor sanitation and the phenomenon of "clay eating" or "dirt eating" (geophagia).
White_trash
Organism which eats insects
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Insectivore
Sand island in Fraser Coast Region, Queensland, Australia
employment. Some died through malnutrition, pulmonary tuberculosis and geophagia. In 1904, in order to save money on funding to the Missions Board, the
K'gari
Consumption of honey
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Mellivory
Postpartum eating of human placenta
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Human_placentophagy
Medical condition
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Pagophagia
Feeding on termites or ants
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Myrmecophagy
Organism that eats mostly or exclusively fish tissue
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Piscivore
Method of feeding in herbivores, eating grasses and other plants
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Grazing_(behaviour)
Organism that eats mostly animal tissue
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Mesocarnivore
Digestion of wood
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Xylophagy
Practice of eating insects by organisms
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Entomophagy
Consumption of bones
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Osteophagy
Indonesian snack made of soil
more susceptible to worm infestations. Other dangers associated with geophagia include damage to tooth enamel, the ingestion of a variety of potentially
Ampo_(snack)
Natural interconnection of food chains
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Food_web
Feeding strategy for many animals
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Egg_predation
Transfer of food between members of a community through stomodeal or proctodeal means
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Trophallaxis
Animal in which nectar is a main source of nutrition in their diet
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Nectarivore
Feeding mainly on seeds
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Seed_predation
Consumption of hard-shelled or exoskeleton-bearing organisms
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Durophagy
Organism that consumes fungi
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Fungivore
Herbivorous animal that specializes in eating leaves
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Folivore
Practice of embryos feeding on eggs
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Oophagy
Fungus which traps and eats tiny animals
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Carnivorous_fungus
Sustained inability to eat sufficient food
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Hunger
Feeding on mucus of fishes or invertebrates
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Mucophagy
Ghanaian term for Bentonite clay
Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Cameroon as calaba, and Nsu in Nigeria. Geophagia Pica (disorder) Kaolin Bentonite |Video: AYILO or SHILE | how to prepare
Ayilo
Parasitic insect reproductive strategy
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Anautogeny
(phagía) autophagosome, autophagy, bacteriophage, dysphagia, esophagitis, geophagia, hematophagy, macrophage, odynophagia, phagocyte, phagocytosis, phagolysosome
List of Greek and Latin roots in English/P–Z
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feathers due to the deliberate removal of food and water for several days. Geophagia; eating soil or sand. Herbivory in carnivorous animals; eating plant material
List of abnormal behaviours in animals
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Russian geologist, meteoriticist, and poet (1879–1945)
ingestion of minerals for nutritional purposes, what is commonly called geophagia now. Dravert's first collection, Shadows and Echoes, was published in
Pyotr_Dravert
Animals that eats worms
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Vermivore
Aquatic animal that feeds on the bottom of a body of water
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Bottom_feeder
Any macroparasitic disease caused by helminths
Ekosse GE (2010). "Microbiological and health related perspectives of geophagia: an overview". African Journal of Biotechnology. 9 (36): 5784–91. Crompton
Helminthiasis
Animal that feeds on carrion
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Necrophage
Branch of scientific study
Winter W; Morisaki CM (1977). "Conditioned taste aversions accompanied by geophagia: evidence for the occurrence of "psychological" factors in the etiology
Animal_psychopathology
Animal that preys on and eats birds
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Avivore
Method of feeding in some heterotrophic organisms
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Myzocytosis
Animal that feeds primarily on grass
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Graminivore
Species of bird
choice for the parakeet. These birds have been observed participating in geophagia, the deliberate ingestion of soil, commonly in location of clay licks
Yellow-chevroned_parakeet
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Thanatophage
changes in the diet of the studied proboscidean and probable evidence of geophagia during fixed times of the year, is published by Coimbra et al. (2026)
2026_in_paleomammalogy
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Predatory_dinoflagellate
Eating of arachnids
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Arachnophagy
Organism using inorganic substrate to obtain reducing equivalents for use in biosynthesis
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Lithotroph
Organism that feeds primarily on sea sponges
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Spongivore
Carnivorous animal that feeds on molluscs
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Molluscivore
Act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth
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Placentophagy
Pollen-eating animal
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Palynivore
Autonomous feeding of animals
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Aquatic_feeding_mechanisms
Fish eating scales of other fish
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Lepidophagy
Changes in patterns of biological consumption
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Xenophagy
Organism that breaks down dead or decaying organisms
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Decomposer
Feeding behaviour
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Paedophagy
Killing and sometimes eating of potential competitors
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Intraguild_predation
Feeding on dead plant or animal biomass by sessile organisms
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Saprophagy
(phagía) autophagosome, autophagy, bacteriophage, dysphagia, esophagitis, geophagia, hematophagy, macrophage, odynophagia, phagocyte, phagocytosis, phagolysosome
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Dietary interactions between species
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Consumer–resource interactions
Consumer–resource_interactions
Animal that mostly eats flowers
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Florivore
Animal that feeds on coral
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Corallivore
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Microbivory
Organism which consumes bacteria
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Bacterivore
Aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food
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Planktivore
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