Sentences with phrase «as carrion»

The discharge, as you can imagine, has been described as carrion - like: «a plant that smells like rotting flesh» and is thick, dark and bloody.

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Pointing in the preface to his own «robust muse» and «Bellocian bellicosity,» Pearce goes on to mock contemporary writers on Shakespeare as «vultures,» «carrion critics,» «gossip and gutter - oriented «scholars,»» and «silly asses of academe.»
And she found that religious people tended to walk around her as they would a piece of carrion.
If so, what type of carrion has the Electricity Company been employing of late to coat its cables and pylons with as to attract the creatures?
As Manuela Carneiro, a researcher who took part in the study published in «Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety», informs SINC: «This is due to the type of diet these animals have — strictly carrion from domestic and wild hunting species — because the consumption of hunting species increases the likelihood of ingesting lead.»
Ravens, carrion birds often popularly depicted as omens of death or misfortune, will be killed by baiting them with poisoned chicken eggs, shooting them and destroying a number of their eggs and nests, Idaho wildlife managers said.
Without vultures, animals that eat carrion as a part of their diet (called facultative scavengers, as opposed to vultures, which eat only carrion) proliferate to take advantage of the available nutrients in a dead carcass.
Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.
Playing a girl who communicates with insects, thereby tracking a murderer across Switzerland with a carrion fly as her mini-bloodhound, would anyway test a Streep.
on Gates Foundation and carrion fly into Hartford as part of public education privatization effort
Gastritis is rapidly produced by such things as rubbish waste, carrion or caustic chemicals.
In addition, she has expended a lot of energy during pregnancy and she may eat all or part of some of these kittens in an attempt to recoup some of those losses (just as she eats placentas) and to dispose of «carrion'that could potentially lead predators to her nest.
It's up to you how to rule in Tropico 5, but the island of Tropico is a political desert filled with carnivorous carrion that will just as likely peck your eyes out as they would aid your government.
In fact, «Shadowland» is filled with owls peering everywhere — from the corners or behind branches — as well as other fierce - looking birds in the process of feasting on their carrion.
There are more herbivores and creatures that parasitise other animals, but the detritivores — the creatures that consume carrion, excrement and decomposing plants — seem to be on the way down, with, the scientists say, potential implications for key ecosystem processes such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and primary productivity.
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