Geophagy (eating dirt)

kinyonga

Chameleon Queen
Its interesting that in many cases its the gravid females that do it...just what I've found with veiled chameleons.

Bats eat dirt to stay healthy....
http://www.livescience.com/animals/080604-bat-dirt.html

Desert Tortoise...
http://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...7b8dc17c530db829d718c11397372771&searchtype=a

Clay licks and colpas....
http://www.perunature.com/node/120

Trampling, wallowing, geophagy in mammals...
http://books.google.ca/books?id=Vc6...wCQ#v=onepage&q=GEOPHAGY AND REPTILES&f=false

Dirt eating for healthy living......
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Abstracts/Diamond_99.html

Detoxification function of geophagy and domestication of the potato ......
http://www.springerlink.com/content/l118j6v577577148/

Veterinary Herbal Medicine.....
http://books.google.ca/books?id=iLb...DgU#v=onepage&q=GEOPHAGY AND REPTILES&f=false
 
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