...They are the scavengers of the country, devouring every species of filth and clearing all carrion from the earth...
Samuel White Baker 「In the Heart of Africa」
...The hyena and the vulture are the scavengers of the tropical regions...
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...They are scavengers and do great service to mankind by devouringdead animal matter, that, if allowed to remain, would soon taint theatmosphere...
Chester A. Reed 「The Bird Book」
...Upon his first visit to the traps, two days later, the trapper found a fox in each trap, and several more were taken before crows and other scavengers had polished the bones of the bait...
A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding 「Fox Trapping」
...Crows also serve as scavengers, feeding on carrion and at dumpinggrounds, as indicated by the high frequency of eggshell and mammalianbone in the diet...
Dwight Platt 「Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas」
... of this discrepancy between the servicesrendered and the harshness of life there are many other examplesoutside the world of scavengers and undertakers!...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... These last, who are high class scavengers, are entitled to first mention...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...Any carrion that has lived the life of an animal comes within the domain of these scavengers...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...) are among the scavengers that help toconsume caribou bodies that are left unguarded in the wilds...
Francis Harper 「The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin」
...The habits of Hyænas accord with their outward appearance; they arenature's scavengers, and feed on everything, being, with the jackal andGenet cat, the especial robbers of the cemetery...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...They are still viewed in that light by Brahmins and Mussulmans,who only rear them to sell to Christians, or to make scavengers of them,for, in a domestic state, they are omnivorous...
R. Lee 「Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals」
...No more remarkable creatures exist in the animal world than those thatplay the rôle of Nature's scavengers and criminals...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...One of the most noted of these scavengers is the jackal—the Bohemian ofthe desert—whose territory extends from the Gulf of Persia to theStrait of Gibraltar...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...Strangely enough, in the animal world, as in the human, the lowerprofessions are filled with those of less mentality than the higher, andas a result we find scavengers are nearest allied to criminals...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...They are useful as scavengers...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
...The dead cat, and choked kennels, mark the little attention shown to the streets bythe scavengers of St...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
... most hideous scavengers of the ocean floor! And not onlyoctopi—but octopi sheathed in metal-scaled armor!...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
...Satellite III harbored Port o' Porno, main refuge and home of the scavengers, the hi-jackers, and out-and-out pirates of space, so many of whom were under Ku Sui's thumb...
Anthony Gilmore 「The Affair of the Brains」
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