Sentences with word «carrion»

The press, particularly The Daily Mail and associates, has been publicising the break - up of fortysomething columnist Liz Jones from her errant younger husband Nirpal Singh Dhaliwal in a manner more than slightly reminiscent of carrion crows picking over the corpse of a dead warthog.

Now, more than a decade later, Buechley and Şekercioğlu have examined factors affecting the extinction risk of more than 100 bird species, including 22 species of vultures, which eat carrion exclusively, and other scavenging birds that have broader diets.

Europe's oil companies are hovering like a flock of carrion birds over the carcass of Gaddafi's regime.

This follows their research that shows how whole communities of bacteria — known as a microbiome — can «hitch a ride» on common carrion flies and can be transferred to any surface where the flies land.

In contrast, the sixgill's large, coarsely serrated ivories performed the poorest, but that shark depends on carrion for food.

In 2002 Sasha Dall, a mathematical ecologist at the University of Exeter in England, used a game theory model to explain why young ravens scout for carrion alone but then recruit other birds to join the feast.

Lead bullets have started to be replaced with copper bullets with a hollow point in some areas to reduce deaths from lead poisoning in carrion birds such as the Californian condor (USA) and the white - tailed eagle (Germany).

In A.D. 542, during the savage Plague of Justinian, the citizens of Constantinople buried their dead in towers along the city walls and, when there was no more room, in massive pits into which corpses were flung like 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.

See if anyone knows what carrion means — if no one does, have someone look it up.

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 are opportunistic foragers, eating just about anything, including carrion.

While not as protected as nature's clean - up crew (ants, vultures and buzzards), our descendents of the wolf were once well equipped to consume carrion.

The first option, however, is not likely because, much of the seal and sea lion carrion is contaminated with pollutants.

In one experiment, U.S. scientists baited crab traps off the coast of Georgia with fresh or rotten fish and found that fresh carrion attracted almost three times as many animals, showing that «bacteria compete with large animal scavengers by rendering carcasses chemically repugnant,» according to the study.

CEO David Lepejian (pictured in the magazine at Nasdaq the day of his IPO) spent 18 - hour days hyping his company's IPO to newly skittish moneyed types who were reluctant to add to their growing portfolios - cum - compost of incorporated carrion.

Buzzards circle New Orleans seeking carrion.

He also fed upon carrion.

Jellyfish carrion carpets the seabed, suggesting it is not a favourite food.»

Many plants, like certain foul - smelling species of the notorious genus amorphophallus (literally, «misshapen penis»), are «carrion flowers» — so called because they mimic the stench of rotting flesh to attract insects.

Up to 1 meter wide and 7 kilograms in mass, they emit foul odors to attract pollinating carrion flies.

Wolves are more agile and can chase and take down all large animals of the region, while hyenas have an acute sense of smell and can locate carrion from many miles away.

«All scavengers play an important ecological role — helping to recycle nutrients and to remove carrion and disease vectors from the ecosystem,» Frehner says.

The American badger is known to cache carrion in the ground.

The corpse flower employs what scientists call carrion mimicry.

In the plant's native Sumatran forest, the stalk's deep burgundy color and scent (variously described as an outhouse in 40ºC weather or soy sauce gone bad) mimic carrion, which attracts beetles and flies that pollinate the flowers.

In vultures» absence, other scavenger populations increase to take advantage of all of the uneaten carrion.

Black vultures and turkey vultures, on the other hand, shift toward these areas, presumably for the ready supply of road carrion.

This is how they beg, and if the fond parent is so inclined it will regurgitate some liquid carrion.

Hoping to answer that question in 2007 on an expedition off the coast of the Bahamas, Widder set the lure so that it glowed with a single blue light, imitating the light emitted by bacteria that often cover carrion on the seafloor.

Particularly during the hunting season, carrion containing lead shot or lead bullet fragments becomes an abundant food source for scavengers.

According to the IUCN, major reasons for the animals» decline include persecution (especially poisoning) by humans, decreasing sources of carrion due to declines in the populations of other large carnivores (wolves, cheetahs, leopards, lions and tigers) and their prey, and changes in livestock practices.

Many of these genes lie within the DNA segment that differs between carrion and hooded crows, suggesting that somehow the pigment genes that give the two groups their unique appearance are also keeping the species separate.

The discovery suggests that badgers may play a previously unknown, but important, role in removing rotting or diseased carrion — helping ranchers, and themselves, in the process.

When winter came and the livestock were herded to lower range, little carrion remained for wolverines.

This and other evidence challenged the long - held idea that the first humans didn't have the intelligence and technology to hunt, eating carrion instead.

Calvignac - Spencer and colleagues collected carrion flies in two tropical habitats: Taï National Park rainforest in Côte d'Ivoire and dry, deciduous Kirindy forest in Madagascar.

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.

They likewise came across carrion - feeding flesh flies emerging from a dead rodent, two nearly microscopic hermit crabs trapped dozens of kilometers from the closest seashore and a larval - stage beaded lacewing, which immobilizes termites with a chemical released from its anus before eating them.

If carrion flies have one enviable talent, it's finding animal carcasses in the wilderness, something they surpass even the most systematic and intrepid field biologists at doing.

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What about carrion removers (vultures), stream cleansers (amphibians) and creatures that disperse seeds by eating them or hoofed animals that help plant them by trampling the soil?

It's like comparing carrion and dung: which do you prefer?

The flight attendant looks at him and says, «I'm sorry, sir, only one carrion allowed per passenger.»

-- Mr. Jiabao, I urge you not to dip in the Ganga, unless you want your mouth full of feces, straw, soggy parts of human bodies, buffalo carrion, and seven different kinds of industrial acids.

Because they prefer carrion.

Diet: Rodents, rabbits and carrion comprise the majority of the diet but this opportunistic feeder also eats birds, insects and even garden vegetables.