geophagy

I tested my hypothesis by collecting and analyzing, for texture and mineral composition, the soils used by the Flicker and then compared these values to those reported by others documenting geophagy in birds.

Moreover, due to the frequent habits of geophagy and taking objects and hands to their mouth, children are more susceptible to the intake of particulate material containing contaminants and are more severely affected because they have a different distribution and metabolism (Soldin, Hanak, & Soldin, 2003).

Risk of human exposure to arsenic and other toxic elements from geophagy: Trace element analysis of baked clay using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry.

Women who eat dirt, an exploration of the role of geophagy in the diet of omnivore.

Eating soil, or its component parts, is known as geophagy. And eating clay, sometimes in a tablet form, is common in parts of Africa and the Middle East.

Regarding source of infection, orangutans engage in geophagy (14), a behavior that this animal frequently practiced, suggesting that the infectious agent could have been obtained from contaminated soil.

In La nostra vita, in contrast, we only find a vacuum, a total disconnectedness from one's own source, the triumph of un-reality: a perverse, brainless, virus-induced geophagy. Before modernity, eating from the land was humanity's oldest industry; after the failure of modernity, Italy is shown to eat up its own land.

The practice of eating dirt, or geophagy, is not considered a social norm in Western society, but the custom is quite common in poorer countries, such as Haiti.

[9.] Hunter JM Macroterm geophagy and pregnancy clays in Southern Africa.

Roze (2009) hypothesized that Porcupines practice geophagy, possibly to deal with PSMs in their diet.

The court heard that the practice of eating Sikor, known as geophagy, is an ancient tradition that is still widespread in many parts of the world, particularly in Africa and India.

Geophagy, or the intentional consumption of soil by animals, is a behavior frequently observed in several species of mammals and birds (Klaus and Schmid, 1998; Gilardi et al., 1999; Krishnamani and Mahaney, 2000; Brightsmith and Munoz-Najar, 2004; Montenegro, 2004; Tobler et al., 2009; Blake et al., 2010).

Some migrants may be at risk from geophagy, or earth-eating, a cross-cultural phenomenon more common among women and children than men.