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Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Behavior > Behavior, Animal > Feeding Behavior > Coprophagia
Physiological Phenomena > Diet, Food, and Nutrition > Nutritional Physiological Phenomena > Feeding Behavior > Coprophagia

Preferred term

Coprophagia  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Coprophagy

Note

  • animal only; HUMAN COPROPHAGIA is available for humans

Scope note

  • Eating of excrement by animal species.

History note

  • 70

In other languages

  • koprofagia

    Finnish

  • coprophagia
  • skatofagia
  • ulosteen syöminen
  • ulosteensyönti
  • Koprofagi

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003303

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