Vultures, hyenas, and Tasmanian devils are highly efficient scavengers, able to locate and consume carrion rapidly, including the meat and bones.
Scavengers play an important role as ecosystem cleaners, helping to remove carcasses from our landscapes by eating them.
These findings emphasized the key role of smaller scavenger species, and uncovered novel insights into the feeding habits of the brushtail possum, which is generally considered to eat mostly plants and insects. Each of these carcasses were monitored by a remote camera for 60 days to record every species that visited, whether that be to investigate or feed on the carcass.
We were wrong about that, not in terms of the smell, but how quickly vertebrate scavengers would find the carcasses. Following nest construction, chick rearing often requires breeding pairs to divide time between foraging, feeding chicks, and protecting the nest. This is because larger scavengers can scare away or predate on smaller scavengers, potentially moving them away from carcasses. Larger scavengers also have bigger appetites, so in their absence, there was potentially more carrion for smaller species to find.
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