Sometimes we tell our children to "keep the plates clean" or let them eat the food on the clean table. In the wild, predators don't eat their prey cleanly, but nothing is wasted. Many animals "clean" the rest of the food, or break down the organic matter so that it can be used by other organisms.
Eat corpses for a living
Scavengers feed on dead animals, rather than by hunting and hunting live prey. They can eat leftover cold scraps from predators, and they can eat animal carcasses that have died for other reasons. Hyenas and vultures are two common scavengers. Scavengers are notorious for eating carcasses, but they provide the necessary services to nature. Decomposing corpses can attract disease-causing organic matter, such as bacteria, and if scavengers don't eat most of the remaining animal carcasses, decomposing corpses can contaminate soil and adjacent water sources. Scavengers tore flesh into smaller, more decomposing pieces, thus accelerating the process of decomposition of corpses.
Waiting for the residue of the cold hyena
Hyenas are one of the most common scavenger mammals. While hyenas are indeed able to hunt prey on their own, they are not reluctant to eat left over from other predators, especially lions. Hyenas watch closely while lions hunt, and if many lions feed around their prey, hyenas wait until they abandon their food. The hyena then rushes up to grab the rest of the food. Sometimes, however, only one or two lions may prey prey, and if the dog herd is large enough, they may keep pestering and attacking the lion until the big cats have to give up their food to them. They eat parts of their prey that lions don't eat. In Africa, where hyenas live, they do a lot of "cleaning" work.
Scavengers among birds
On this continent and almost anywhere in the world, vultures and similar birds feed on animal carcasses, and they are also known as carrion eaters. Vultures have supernatural vision, like eagles, and they gaze at the food that may appear below from a distance at high altitude. The vultures also noticed each other, and when only the vultures flew to the ground, the other vultures knew that it had found food, so they all flew with them. That's why, seemingly in the blink of an eye, flocks of vultures appear next to an animal carcass. Other scavenger birds, such as storks and other storks, will pay attention to and follow vultures. A vulture swooping down to fresh animal remains provokes a cascade of reactions, other scavengers and ground animals rush to the carcass, and even predators take advantage of the "I found food" signal from the swooping vulture. Lions and some other predators also eat naturally dead animal carcasses.
Most vultures feed on the soft tissues of animal carcasses, such as meat in muscles and organs. Some vultures eat meat specifically from a certain part, such as skin and tendons. All vultures and most other scavengers have long, sharp, curved beaks to tear pieces of flesh, and some bald long necks allow them to burrow into the corpse and pull out organs. Animals do not give in to each other for the sake of carrion. A large herd of feeding vultures may be chased away from their delicacies by a lion, and the vultures will patiently wait for the lion to fill their stomachs. As soon as the lions left, the vultures rushed up again, however, they could be driven away again by other ferocious carnivores. Storks are also a scavenger bird that can grow up to 1.52 meters tall and have a wingspan of up to 2.44 meters. The stork's beak is not curved, but long and straight, and it can be used to reach into the interior of the corpse and tear off large pieces of flesh. The small vultures that are eating carrion will be replaced by the big vultures, the big vultures will be replaced by the storks, and the storks will be replaced by hyenas, and so on. Usually, each scavenger leaves some uneaten food, so there will always be food for all kinds of scavengers to eat.
Scavenging bald eagle with American national bird
When the founders of the United States discussed which bird should be used to represent the United States of America, many people opposed the use of bald eagles. Despite its noble appearance, some of its habits, such as eating carrion, disgusted some of its early leaders. Benjamin Colan klin considered the choice of the bald eagle as the national bird of affairs as a major mistake, and his advice was to choose a turkey. Although the turkey has many excellent qualities, people say that it does not look like a mighty animal. Eventually the voices of bald seahawk supporters drowned out Franklin's opinion and became the national bird of the United States.
Every animal's habitat will have animals die, and other animals will feed on their carcasses. By the sea, crabs are the most numerous scavengers, splitting and eating the remains of animal carcasses with their claws and claws. On the seabed, lobsters often eat scavenging. The carcasses of dead animals decay particularly quickly underwater, where detritus-eating animals play an important role in the degradation of carrion. Scavengers are nature's scavengers, cleaning animal carcasses to prevent some dead animals from spoiling and spreading germs.