Sentences with phrase «small animal carcasses»

Not exact matches

Although the vultures» hooked beaks are sharp enough to pierce the hides of smaller animals, they're unable to access thick - skinned carcasses like this one without the help of larger scavengers like hyenas and wild dogs — animals still missing from this recovering ecosystem.

Additionally, although carrion flies mainly home in on large animal carcasses, other invertebrate surveyors could help scientists study different ecosystem layers — for instance, carrion beetles, which feast on smaller carcasses, including those of birds.

Unlike the carcasses of small animals such as rabbits, the carcasses of large animals have lots of fats.

I don't idealize the ancient diet, because we can't really fully know it, but realistically I'd have to guess that besides plants (and bugs), like someone else mentioned, it probably included whatever else was easy to procure, (considering it wouldn't make sense to expend more calories hunting down food than you would receive from consuming it) like mussels, clams, crabs, snails, some fish, maybe small animals, but I bet the taste for meat came from observing REAL carnivores consuming flesh, and maybe leaving carcasses behind.

Computer generated decomposing of animal carcasses taps into Darwin's unsettling yet organic vision that all of nature is at war from the smallest to largest predator.

I figured it wouldn't since wild dogs routinely eat freshly killed small animals and even animal carcasses that are days old.