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June 4

Eating eggs

In zoology, what does one call the practice of routinely eating eggs? I figured it was oophagy, and we do have an article with that name, but it turns out to be a completely different concept. I was envisioning an animal whose diet consists largely of eggs (e.g. a fox that raids henhouses), not an un-hatched embryo eating other embryos. Nyttend (talk) 03:21, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Egg predation? Nimur (talk) 03:51, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

Ovivore redirects to that page and could be used to generate associated words (ovivorous/ovivory/etc.) Matt Deres (talk) 15:06, 4 June 2019 (UTC)

As the article notes, few animals eat mostly or exclusively eggs, which is probably why you don't see lots of specific terminology for it: most eat eggs as part of generalist predation behavior. --47.146.63.87 (talk) 23:42, 4 June 2019 (UTC)