例文・使い方で印象づける「scavengers」の覚え方
スポンサーリンク...The hyena and the vulture are the scavengers of the tropical regions... 
Captain Frederick Marryat 「The Mission; or Scenes in Africa」
...The scavengers ofZinder are, therefore, the vultures and hyænas: theformer wing the air and dart on their prey by day,and the latter prowl the streets by night...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...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」
...They are scavengers, and eagerly follow asteamer at lunch-time to gather the scraps...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...Kites used to be excessively common about many Englishtowns, where they acted as scavengers...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...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」
... These last, who are high class scavengers, are entitled to first mention...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
... of this discrepancy between the services rendered andthe harshness of life there are many other examples outside the worldof scavengers and undertakers!...
J. H. Fabre 「The Wonders of Instinct」
...) 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」
...These public scavengers, while especially fond of carcasses and putridflesh, are not averse to a little fresh meat occasionally...
Royal Dixon 「The Human Side of Animals」
...They eat vegetables and insects,and do good work as scavengers...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...As scavengers they servea useful purpose in Eastern lands and deserve the protectionthey are said to receive from the natives...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...They are useful as scavengers...
Various 「Heads and Tales」
... most hideous scavengers of the ocean floor! And not onlyoctopi—but octopi sheathed in metal-scaled armor!...
Various 「Astounding Stories, February, 1931」
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