AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hyenas are a specialized type of carnivore called a scavenger. Scavengers consume the bodies of animals the scavenger did not kill. Most hyenas are also hunters. A scavenger is an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.

Detailed explanation-2: -scavenger, also called carrion-feeder, animal that feeds partly or wholly on the bodies of dead animals. Many invertebrates, such as carrion beetles, live almost entirely on decomposing animal matter. The burying beetles actually enter the dead bodies of small animals before feeding on them underground.

Detailed explanation-3: -Organisms like vulture feed on dead and decaying organisms and hence are called scavengers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Many large carnivores that hunt regularly, such as hyenas and jackals, but also animals rarely thought of as scavengers, such as African lions, leopards, and wolves will scavenge if given the chance.