![]() Insects abroad: Being a popular account of foreign insects their structure, habits and transformations. ![]() NYS Department of Environmental Conservation April 2006 ^ "San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Tasmanian Devil".The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats: A Comprehensive Guide to the Trackable Animals of the United States and Canada. ^ "San Diego Zoo's Animal Bytes: Striped hyena". ![]() The Carrion Eaters Archived 1 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine. An example of carrion being used to describe dead and rotting bodies in literature may be found in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar (III.i): Sometimes carrion is used to describe an infected carcass that is diseased and should not be touched. Stinkhorn mushrooms are examples of fungi with this characteristic.Ī coyote feeding on elk carrion in Yellowstone National Park's Lamar Valley during winter. Plants that exhibit this behavior are known as carrion flowers. Some plants and fungi smell like decomposing carrion and attract insects that aid in reproduction. Not long after the animal has died, its body will begin to exude a foul odor caused by the presence of bacteria and the emission of cadaverine and putrescine. ![]() Flies settling on a sheep carrionĬarrion begins to decay at the moment of the animal's death, and it will increasingly attract insects and breed bacteria. Zoarcid fish feeding on the carrion of a mobulid ray. Many invertebrates, such as the carrion and burying beetles, as well as maggots of calliphorid flies (such as one of the most important species in Calliphora vomitoria) and flesh-flies, also eat carrion, playing an important role in recycling nitrogen and carbon in animal remains. Examples of carrion-eaters (or scavengers) include crows, vultures, condors, hawks, eagles, hyenas, Virginia opossum, Tasmanian devils, coyotes and Komodo dragons. For other uses, see Carrion (disambiguation).Ī wedge-tailed eagle and carrion ( roadkill kangaroo) in the Pilbara region of Western AustraliaĬarrion (from Latin caro 'meat') is the decaying flesh of dead animals, including human flesh.Ĭarrion is an important food source for large carnivores and omnivores in most ecosystems. ![]()
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