What Animal Eats The Most

Expressionless and decaying flesh of an animal

Carrion (from Latin caro 'meat') is the decomposable mankind of dead animals, including human flesh.

Overview [edit]

Carrion is an of import food source for large carnivores and omnivores in well-nigh ecosystems. Examples of feces-eaters (or scavengers) include crows, vultures, condors, hawks, eagles,^[1] hyenas,^[2] Virginia opossum,^[3] Tasmanian devils,^[4] coyotes^[v] and Komodo dragons. Many invertebrates, such as the carrion and burial beetles,^[6] too as maggots of calliphorid flies (such as ane of the most important species in Calliphora vomitoria) and flesh-flies, also consume carrion, playing an important role in recycling nitrogen and carbon in animal remains.^[7]

Carrion begins to decay at the moment of the animal'southward death, and it will increasingly attract insects and brood leaner. Not long after the animal has died, its body will begin to exude a foul odor caused by the presence of leaner and the emission of cadaverine and putrescine.

Some plants and fungi aroma like decomposing carrion and concenter insects that assistance in reproduction. Plants that exhibit this behavior are known as carrion flowers. Stinkhorn mushrooms are examples of fungi with this feature.

Sometimes carrion is used to draw an infected carcass that is diseased and should not exist touched. An case of carrion being used to describe expressionless and rotting bodies in literature may be found in William Shakespeare'south play Julius Caesar (III.i):^[8]

Cry 'Havoc,' and let slip the dogs of war;
That this foul deed shall odor in a higher place the earth
With feces men, groaning for burying.

Another example can exist found in Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe when the title character kills an unknown bird for nutrient but finds "its mankind was carrion, and fit for nil".

Consumption by humans [edit]

In Noahide law [edit]

The xxx-count laws of Ulla (Talmudist) include the prohibition of humans consuming carrion.^[9] This count is in addition to the standard vii law count and has been recently^{[ when? ]} published from the Judeo-Standard arabic writing of Shmuel ben Hophni Gaon after having been lost for centuries.^[10]

References [edit]

^ Hovenden, Frank. The Carrion Eaters Archived 1 June 2010 at the Wayback Machine. Comox Valley Naturalists Society. 7 May 2010.
^ "San Diego Zoo'southward Animal Bytes: Striped hyena". San Diego Zoo. 7 May 2010.
^ Len McDougall (2004). The Encyclopedia of Tracks and Scats: A Comprehensive Guide to the Trackable Animals of the United States and Canada. Globe Pequot. p. 274. ISBN978-1-59228-070-iv.
^ "San Diego Zoo's Fauna Bytes: Tasmanian Devil". San Diego Zoo. vii May 2010.
^ Stegemann, Eileen. "Skull Science: Coyote". NYS Section of Ecology Conservation April 2006
^ John George Wood (1892). Insects abroad: Being a popular account of foreign insects; their construction, habits and transformations. Longmans. pp. 82–. Retrieved 27 Nov 2011.
^ Ames, C.; Turner, B. (2003). "Low temperature episodes in development of blowflies: implications for postmortem interval estimation". Medical and Veterinary Entomology. 17 (2): 178–186. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2915.2003.00421.x. ISSN 1365-2915. PMID 12823835. S2CID 10805033.
^ The Life and Death of Julius Caesar. SCENE I. Rome. Earlier the Capitol; the Senate sitting in a higher place.
^ Talmud, Hullin 92b
^ Mossad HaRav Kook edition of Gaon's commentary to Genesis.