Scavengers refer to organisms that eat food scraps and leftovers. A scavenger is an organism that eats decaying biomass like meat or rotting plants. Many scavengers are carnivorous, an organism that eats meat. Usually, carnivores hunt and kill their prey, but scavengers eat animals that died of natural causes or have been killed by another carnivore. Scavengers belong to the food web.
Scavenger Animals
Some examples of scavenger animals are:
A vulture is a bird that eats rotten flesh.
Carrion beetle eats flesh or even bat manures.
Blowflies are insects that eat on dead parts or wound of live animals.
Trophic Level
These are the trophic level or passing of energy from autotrophs:
Producer
Herbivore
Omnivore
Carnivore
