What do you call an animal that eats its prey dead?

Answer 1

These animals are called scavengers or carrion eaters.

Animals that further break down the remains are called decomposers or saprotrophs. These are usually bacteria or actinomycetes, or plants like fungi.

Meat eaters, as a group, are called carnivores, and plant eaters are called herbivores. Animals who consume both are omnivores.
some thing part of the scavenger group like a crow or other animal start eating on it
A detritivore is an animal that feeds on dead or decaying animals. A more common word is scavenger.
Most people prefer to eat dead animals. Live chickens, for example, are very difficult to serve to guests. As an aside the internet is populated with videos of animals eating other live animals.

Animals that eat animals that are already dead are called scavengers. Some examples of scavengers are vultures, crows, racoons and many types of carnivorous insects both as adults and as immature forms (maggots etc). In the ocean there are many benthic (bottom dwelling animals like lobsters) that eat dead animals.

The British magazine nature posted an in depth study of insects eating dead animals:

Nature 219, 1180 - 1181 (14 September 1968); doi:10.1038/2191180 "Arthropod Succession and Decomposition of Buried Pigs"

Answer 2

Carnivores eat meat. By definition, meat is dead. Carrion Eaters or Scavengers eat decaying meat. Carnivores tend not to eat decayed meat, while Carrion eaters prefer decaying meat but will eat fresh meat as well, with some exceptions. There are some Carrion eaters which can only digest meat after it has rotted. Carrion Eaters are a type of Carnivore.

Answer 3

scavenger ~or~ almost every animal kills its prey before it eats it.

Answer 4

Scavenger. Even some people are scavengers.

Answer 5

A scavenger.

Answer 6

frog