American Carrion Beetle
Scavenger
120 objects
Meet nature's clean-up crew! These important animals help keep the environment tidy by eating what other animals have left behind or things that have passed away.
Scavengers consume dead organic matter, helping to decompose carcasses and other waste in the ecosystem.
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American Cockroach
American Herring Gull
Andean Condor
Argentine Ant
Asian Needle Ant
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Bateleur
Black Fire Beetle
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Black Kite
Black Rat
Black Soldier Fly
Black Stink Bug
Black Vulture
Black-billed Magpie
Black-headed Gull
Black-tailed Gull
Blow Flies
Blue Crab
Bluebottle Flies
Brown Rat
California Condor
Cancer productus
Canids
Caribbean hermit crab
Carnivorans
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Caspian Gull
Channel Catfish
Coconut crab
Common Buzzard
Common European Scorpionfly
Common European Yellowjacket
Common Flesh Flies
Common Gull
Common Raven
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Crangon crangon
Crested Caracara
Death's head cockroach
Deep-Sea Crab
Dentate Stink Beetle
Diabolical Ironclad Beetle
Domestic Dog
Drugstore Beetle
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Dung Rollers
Dungeness crab
Earwigs
Eastern Yellowjacket
Eleodes longicollis
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Eleodes nigropilosa
Eurasian Griffon
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Fish Crow
Florida Woods Cockroach
Fruit Fly
Giant Isopod
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Glaucous Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
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Great-tailed Grackle
Greater Adjutant
Greenbottle Flies
Gull
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Gyps rueppelli
Hawthorn Shield Bug
Herring Gull
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Hooded Crow
Hooded × Carrion Crow
Horned Passalid
House Mouse
Housefly
Immigrant Pavement Ant
Jackal
King Vulture
Laughing Gull
Lesser Black-backed Gull
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Mainland Raccoon Dog
Marabou Stork
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Meadow Scorpionfly
Mediterranean Flour Moth
Melandrya caraboides
Minotaur Beetle
Muscoid Flies
Norway Rat
Nylanderia
Odorous House Ant
Oil Beetles
Old World Rats
Olympic Gull
Oriental Cockroach
Palm-nut Vulture
Plains Hognose Snake
Planaria
Platycerus caraboides
Polietes
Pterostichus burmeisteri
Rainbow Scarab
Red Kite
Rook
Scarabs
Seaside Rover Ant
Short-billed Gull
Silpha carinata
Spotted Hyena
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Springtime Dung Beetle
Tasmanian devil
Varied Carpet Beetle
Veromessor pergandei
Vespillo Burying Beetle
Vulture
Western Earwig
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Western Gull
White-necked Raven
Wild Boar
Winnow Ant
Wolverine
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Woodland Dor Beetle
Yellow-legged Gull
honey badger
northern crested caracara