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Animals such as vultures or raccoons that eat dead or decaying animals in an ecosystem are called what in the ecosystem?
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What is the stability of an ecosystem depends on its producers and decomposers?
Producers make food for most organisms: they depend on them for their survival. Decomposers deliver nutrients back inot the soil and decompose dead/decaying animals/plants.
What eats dead stuff to recycle the nutrients back into the ecosystem?
Many small insects and bugs as well as some larger animals like hyena, wild dogs, baboons, vultures, eagles and other birds.
What is decaying plant material called?
It is call humus because it is the decaying part of plant and animals.
What is ecosystem is ecosystem?
its the habitat were animals live
What Ecosystem?
An animals habitat
Why are scavengers such as turkey vultures known as natures clean upsquad?
because they eat dead and decaying animals.
Plants feeding on dead or decaying matter?
Only fungi feed on dead or decaying matter.
What kind of animal eats dead decaying animales?
Vultures and hyenas are scavengers that eat the carcases of dead animals.
What kind of animals live in a forest ecosystem?
squirrels, raccoons, bugs, birds, etc.
Name the animals that are scavengers?
Scavenger is the scientific name of animals that feed on dead animals and plants. There is a huge number of scavengers like vultures, beetles, and raccoons.
Are turkey vultures helpful in any way?
All vultures are carrion eaters (they eat the remains of dead animals but do not kill these animals themselves). There role is to tidy up the environment as things die. To help them do this turkey vultures have one of the best developed senses of smell in the animal kingdom so that they can smell out dead animals in the jungle where the dead animal can not be seen from above because of the tree cover.
What feeds on the dead bodies of plants and animals?
Vultures and termites are good examples of scavengers, as are owls and raccoons. Hyenas, lions (even mountain lions), wolves, coyotes, and tigers will chase the original hunters away from carrion. Crows often exploit roadkill.
What are different examples of scavengers?
A scavenger lives off of the dead animals that another animal or human kills. Examples are vultures, hyenas, jackals, lions, raccoons and opossum.
What animals prey on vultures?
No animals prey on Vultures because they are the top of the food chain.
What other animals eat vultures?
Humans eat Vultures!!!
What role does a vulture play?
Vultures do not kill animals but by eating the dead animals, they keep the environment clean. Vultures prevent spread of dangerous diseases like rabies which is very dangerous to the wildlife. Without vultures animal remains would decompose in the open air, leading to increased risk of rabies and live stock born diseases like anthrax.
What is a vultures repast?
Vultures eat carrion, meaning dead animals.
