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- Title
Dirty eating for healthy living.
- Authors
Diamond, Jared M.
- Abstract
Presents research on the proposed biological functions of geophagy. James Gilardi and colleagues, who uncover an evolutionary arms race between plants and their would-be animal consumers; Research conducted on Peruvian Amazon rainforest parrots; Highly specific tastes of the birds; Efforts to test possible functions of geophagy by comparing the physical and chemical properties of soil samples; What the parrots gain from ingested soil; Questions needing to be answered.
- Subjects
PICA (Pathology); FOOD preferences; PARROTS; SOIL quality; ANIMAL feeding
- Publication
Nature, 1999, Vol 400, Issue 6740, p120
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/22014