#scavengers — Public Fediverse posts

🐾 WATCH: Three young Tasmanian devil #joeys tumble and climb on their mother Mocha at #Victoria's #Healesville Sanctuary. The carnivorous #marsupials start out the size of rice grains in their mother's backward-facing pouch before emerging to run, practice climbing, and explore their outdoor enclosure.

👉 https://seethis.tv/post/tasmanian-devil-joeys-healesville-sanctuary

#animals #australia #predators #babies #conservation #cute #endangered #scavengers #tasmaniandevil #zoos #wildlife #nature #tksst #video

Necrophage (Zoology 🦥)

Necrophages are animals that feed on decomposing dead animal biomass, such as the muscle and soft tissue of carcasses or corpses. The term derives from Greek nekros, meaning 'dead', and phagein, meaning 'to eat'. Many hundreds of necrophagous species have been identified including invertebrates in the insect, malacostracan and gastropod classes and verte...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophage

#Necrophage #Ecology #Zoology #Scavengers #Biotechnology #EatingBehaviors