Glossary questions and requests

[Jools]

Good points and you've done well to put them in the right thread. I note Birger's been doing some edits on the glossary...

Jools

[Shovelnose]

A couple more from here http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... 92#p288093

Xylophagy : Xylophagy is a term used in ecology to describe the habits of an herbivorous animal whose diet consists primarily (often solely) of wood.

Coprophagy : Coprophagy refers to many kinds of feces eating, including eating feces of other species (heterospecifics), of other individuals (allocoprophagy), or its own (autocoprophagy) – those once deposited or taken directly from the anus.

Both definitions taken from Wikipedia.

[bekateen]

On the subject of dietary habits, I see that oophagy (the eating of eggs, usually (but not necessarily) as a major portion of an animal's diet) is not in the glossary either...

This term has been brought up previously:
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... gy#p232691
http://www.planetcatfish.com/forum/view ... gy#p280709

EDIT: Oops, duh, these are just a few inches up on the page - no real need for links. It was so long ago since these were entered that I just used the forum search to find them (rather than just scrolling upward), and I wrongly assumed that they were on a different page of this thread.

[Shovelnose]

A few more,

Phototaxis :The movement of an organism or a cell toward or away from a source of light.

Troglobitic : A reference to any creature having a cave-dwelling mode of life.

Hypogean : Living or occurring under the earth's surface.

[Jools]

I think Birger has added all of these now. Well done!

Jools