Sentences with geophagy
ge·oph·a·gy
G g - The following quotation serves both to illustrate his main point, that geophagy has been widespread, and to exhibit the pleasant style in which he wrote.
- Howler monkeys are well known to engage in geophagy, or earth eating, though the reason they do it remains unclear.
- It may explain, for example, occurrence of geophagy in parrots, which consume large quantities of secondary metabolites in fruits and seeds.
- The practice, called geophagy, has waned in recent years.