HORTICULTURE

HORTICULTURE SCIENCE

ENTOMOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Feeding on a dead animal
A
Livor Mortis
B
Algor Mortis
C
Rigor Mortis
D
Necrophagous
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Necrophagy is the feeding behaviour of an organism that eats carrion from another animal that it did not kill. Insects exhibiting this behaviour include burying beetles, wasps and blowflies. Social wasps also exhibit necrophagous behaviour as they steal wrapped prey from the webs of spiders.

Detailed explanation-2: -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. Many scavengers are a type of carnivore, which is an organism that eats meat.

Detailed explanation-3: -scavenger, also called carrion-feeder, animal that feeds partly or wholly on the bodies of dead animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Carrion is an important food source for large carnivores and omnivores in most ecosystems. Examples of carrion-eaters (or scavengers) include crows, vultures, condors, hawks, eagles, hyenas, Virginia opossum, Tasmanian devils, coyotes and Komodo dragons.

Detailed explanation-5: -Scavengers feed on dead plant and animal matter.

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