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Field studies have indicated that juvenile sardine are more zoophagous than adults.
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It was dark when I was able to inquire about my zoophagous patient.
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Depending on what an organism eats, it is described as being either phytophagous, zoophagous or saprophagous.
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I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagous maniac.
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Zoophagous insects extract nutrients from a living animal host and represent a broad group of parasitic insects.
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There is no character with the sustaining power of Count Dracula, or of Renfield, the zoophagous patient who eats flies and spiders.
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He also changes his ideas to accommodate Mina Harker by quickly eating all flies and stating that it was an old habit. Doctor John Seward diagnoses him as a "zoophagous maniac", or life-consuming madman. Later Renfield builds up his own courage to harm Dr. Seward, acquiring a knife and cutting his arm; as Seward's blood drips from his hand, Renfield licks it off the floor. During the course of the novel, the role of Renfield as a patient allows the reader to understand his behavior from the perspective of a psychologist.
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Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula's first English home, Carfax. Throughout the novel, Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, R. M. Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life- consuming psychosis, or as he calls it, zoophagous. As a psychiatrist, Seward enjoys using the most up-to-date equipment, including using a recording phonograph to record his interviews with his patients and his own notes. Several chapters of the novel consist of transcriptions of Seward's phonograph recordings.
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