| 1. | Dirt eating, or geophagy, goes back thousands of years.
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| 2. | Geophagy is the practice of eating soil-like substances.
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| 3. | Yellow tailed woolly monkeys participate in geophagy, the consumption of soil.
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| 4. | Geophagy was attributed to feelings of misery, homesickness, depression, and alienation.
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| 5. | Geophagy, the practice of eating soil or rock, has been observed in orangutans.
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| 6. | Geophagy has been observed in this species.
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| 7. | Indigenous peoples around the world still use clay widely, which is related to geophagy.
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| 8. | Many vertebrates ( including people in some cultures ) eat soil, a behavior known as geophagy.
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| 9. | It feeds mostly on tree buds and weed seeds; geophagy has been observed in this species.
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| 10. | According to Mahandran et al . geophagy have the function of mineral supplementation and / or detoxification.
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