zoosphere

plural zoospheres · alternative zoösphere

1. countableuncountableThe animals of the Earth, especially as an ecosystem.

   For quite clearly, although we are animals, bound in the web of causality that joins us to the zoosphere, we are not just animals.

   2017 March 6, Roger Scruton, “If We Are Not Just Animals, What Are We?”, in The New York Times

2. countableuncountablebiologyA layer in which animals are present.

   […] this mode of selection does not seem to apply to the zoosphere of the investigated Antarctic sediments.

   1988, Wolfgang Reichardt, “Impact of the Antarctic Benthic Fauna on the Enrichment of Biopolymer Degrading Psychrophilic Bacteria”, in Microbial Ecology, volume 15, number 3, page 319