AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Vultures only eat the bodies of dead animals. Vultures have many biological adaptations that make them well-suited to being scavengers. Most have excellent eyesight and a strong sense of smell. They use these keen senses to locate rotting carrion while they are soaring high over land.

Detailed explanation-2: -Animals, who eat the flesh of dead animals, as food are called Scavengers. Example: vultures, hyena, coyote, raccoon, etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -Black vultures and their relatives perform a very important service to the ecosystem: they are decomposers. Decomposers eat rotting plants or dead animals, called carrion. This process of eating, digesting, and returning dead things to the soil is an important part of energy flow in an ecosystem.