zoocentrichttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zoocentric_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezoocentric, adj.
Revised 2017

zoocentricadjective

  1. 1882–
    Centred on or principally concerned with the animal world, esp. to the exclusion of plants or humans; characterized by such a focus.
    1. 1882
      In later times a few of this school have expanded their scheme to embrace the animal world in general, rendering it zoöcentric instead of anthropocentric.
      Transactions Anthropol. Soc. Washington 1879–82 vol. 1 93
    2. 1977
      Virtually all of the work reported is that of zoologists and the research is zoocentric.
      J. L. Harper, Population Biology of Plants 433
    3. 2001
      You are showing your zoocentric side with your description... This sort of arrangement is not so rare among plants.
      Nature 26 July 375/3

Originally published as part of the entry for zoo-, comb. form

zoo-, comb. form was revised in June 2017.