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How would you describe species that eat soil?
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May be Грунтоед, as in the title?
They could be "earthworms": http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/earthwormOriginally Posted by Ramil
But if they don't look like worms maybe just call them "soil eaters": http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/3/soileaters.php
Or "soil feeders": http://books.google.com/books?id=iCC1sO ... t&resnum=5 and http://www.cababstractsplus.org/abstrac ... 9981105317
does anything eat soil? Doesn't it eat things in the soil? To me, soil means dirt, earth; what kind of creature can turn that into energy?
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How about "geophage" (made up word) or something? From "geophagy".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophagy
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%...B3%D0%B8%D1%8F
Oligochaeta for example. They consume soil and digest any organic material they find. I translated a scientific text about using them for cleaning silt from oil contamination.
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Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of that.Oligochaeta for example. They consume soil and digest any organic material they find. I translated a scientific text about using them for cleaning silt from oil contamination.
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Do you really want to read this article?Can't wait to get my hands on a copy of that.Oligochaeta for example. They consume soil and digest any organic material they find. I translated a scientific text about using them for cleaning silt from oil contamination.
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Sure, if it's available via the web.
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http://docs.google.com/View?id=dx6rqpb_1c5h25xrpSure, if it's available via the web.
Would be glad to any corrections.
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