OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
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What is a scavenger?
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A consumer that eats dead animals that have already been killed by other animals; does not recycle nutrients
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A carnivore that eats what it kills
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Eats plants and meat
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Eats plants only
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Scavengers play an important role the food web. They keep an ecosystem free of the bodies of dead animals, or carrion. Scavengers break down this organic material and recycle it into the ecosystem as nutrients. Some birds are scavengers.
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: -Scavengers are animals that find dead animals or plants and eat them. While they eat them, they break them into small bits. Flies, wasps and cockroaches are scavengers. Earthworms are also scavengers, but they only break down plants.
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