Sentences with phrase «eat carrion»

They also eat some carrion.

Coyotes will also eat carrion, especially in areas with large deer populations.

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.

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.

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.

Fishing is a learned behavior for the bald eagle, and so juvenile eagles spend their first year eating carrion (carcasses) until they become proficient at fishing (Dooley et al. 2005).

The dog was eating a carrion, but I screwed exposure so this is not vey visible... me lucky bastard.

Not exact matches

House cats, dogs, pigs, foxes, skunks, carrion - eating birds and coyotes have died after eating 1080 - poisoned rodents.»

Bald eagles primarily eat fish, but also scavenge for carrion and occasionally eat waterbirds and their eggs.

Both birds nest on cliffs and feed on grazed land, but the choughs eat insects while the ravens feed on carrion.

This adaptation allows the shark to eat sharks, rays, fish, seals, and carrion.

In general, hyenas are large, strong, flesh - eating animals that hunt a wide range of prey but mostly feed on carrion (the kills of other predators).

That attracts its pollinators: carrion - eating beetles and flesh flies.

The researchers also recorded eight other species of carrion - eating birds, two mammals, and even a lizard taking advantage of the remains — although the tiny reptile was probably feeding on insects attracted to the carcass, says Elbroch.

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.

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?

Our super ancient ancestors ate small amounts of carrion and fish and maybe the odd egg when it could be found.

Our closest primate relatives eat plants, insects, carrion, even kill other primates for food.

Considering the fact that dogs have historically been scavengers, able to eat all kinds of carrion and trash, it can be surprising that they can have food allergies and sensitivities to modern dog food ingredients, but that's the case.

It will eat almost anything, including dead animals, feces, carrion or garbage to fill the hollow feeling within its belly.»

They are omnivorous, and will eat almost anything, including carrion and garbage.

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.

They will eat almost anything, including other birds, fruits, nuts, mollusks, earthworms, seeds, frogs, eggs, nestlings, mice, and carrion.