Sentences with phrase «facultative scavengers»

Other facultative scavengers are not so adapted, and could pass along those diseases into human populations, as many are already fixtures in cities.

«All these facultative scavengers are also predators, and so they also go out and eat other organisms too,» Buechley says.

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.