Animal cracker Animal cracker An animal cracker is a particular type of small cracker/cookie, baked in the shape of an animal, usually an animal either at a zoo or circus, such as an African lion, tiger, bear or elephant. The most common variety is light-colored and slightly sweet, but darker chocolate-flavored and colorful frosted varieties are also sold. Although animal crackers are made with a layered dough like crackers, they tend to be sweet in flavor, but still technically a cracker and not a cookie. Other animal-shaped crackers and cookies are popular, such as Teddy Grahams, Goldfish, Hello Panda and Koala's March.
Sooty mold is a black, powdery coating adhering to plants and their fruit or environmental objects. The ecology of the different species, their interactions, relationship to the host have been little understood. A chance observation of a Microcyclospora tardicrescens inhibiting the growth of the fruit pathogen "Colletotrichum fioriniae" in dual culture tests, yielded trichothecolone acetate and its (S)-7-hydroxy derivative as active principles for the interaction between "M. tardicrescens" and "C. fioriniae". Genera causing sooty molds are "Alternaria", "Cladosporium", "Aureobasidium", "Antennariella", "Limacinula", "Scorias", "Meliola", and "Capnodium". Sooty mold grows particularly well on plants that produce a sugary exudate, if they are infested by