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  2. Oligophagy - Wikipedia

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    Oligophagy refers to the eating of only a few specific foods, and to monophagy when restricted to a single food source. [1] The term is usually associated with insect dietary behaviour. [ 2 ] Organisms may exhibit narrow or specific oligophagy where the diet is restricted to a very few foods or broad oligophagy where the organism feeds on a ...

  3. List of feeding behaviours - Wikipedia

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    Oligophagy is a term for intermediate degrees of selectivity, referring to animals that eat a relatively small range of foods, either because of preference or necessity. [2] Another classification refers to the specific food animals specialize in eating, such as: Carnivore: the eating of animals Araneophagy: eating spiders; Avivore: eating birds

  4. Oligarchy - Wikipedia

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    Oligarchy (from Ancient Greek ὀλιγαρχία (oligarkhía) 'rule by few'; from ὀλίγος (olígos) 'few' and ἄρχω (árkhō) 'to rule, command') [1] [2] [3] is a form of government in which power rests with a small number of people.

  5. Oligophage - Wikipedia

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  6. Oophagy - Wikipedia

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    The shortfin mako engages in embryonic oophagy. Oophagy (/ oʊ ˈ ɒ f ə dʒ i / oh-OFF-ə-jee) or ovophagy, literally "egg eating", is the practice of embryos feeding on eggs produced by the ovary while still inside the mother's uterus. [1]

  7. Osteophagy - Wikipedia

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    Wolverines are observed finding large bones invisible in deep snow and are specialists at scavenging bones specifically to cache. Wolverine upper molars are rotated 90 degrees inward, which is the identifying dentition characteristic of the family Mustelidae (weasel family), of which the wolverine has the most mass, so they can crack the bones and eat the frozen marrow of large animals.

  8. Dysentery - Wikipedia

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    These differences in definition must be taken into account when defining mechanisms. For example, using the CDC definition requires that intestinal tissue be so severely damaged that blood vessels have ruptured, allowing visible quantities of blood to be lost with defecation. Other definitions require less specific damage. [citation needed]

  9. Oligotroph - Wikipedia

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    An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients.They may be contrasted with copiotrophs, which prefer nutritionally rich environments.