scavengers
Carroñeros
definition
noun
Experts on the red kite - a spectacular bird with a wingspan of up to 6ft - say it is essentially a scavenger which feeds on carrion rather than attacking sheep or game birds.
an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse.
translation of 'scavengers'
noun
basurero,
barrendero
example
Although the 'scavengers' could also collect organic trash that can be transformed into organic fertilizer, most of them are loath to touch the putrifying garbage.
Whenever the antioxidants are present, antioxidant enzyme activity and 'scavengers' of the free radical will be induced to prevent the oxidative damage.
Telephone and electric lines drooped in useless loops from poles and then disappeared entirely where 'scavengers' had picked them clean.
Their island-home always seemed to be inhabited by great black birds - ravens, crows, 'scavengers' of all sorts.
In ancient times this was done by carrying the body to a high hilltop, leaving it bare for nature's 'scavengers' to feed on.
Metal 'scavengers' dismantled 155 mm artillery rounds, spreading gun powder on the ground at the depot, which housed old artillery.
Vultures will be replaced by less favoured 'scavengers' like rats and dogs.
The fact that many crustaceans, being omnivorous, may act as 'scavengers' and eat the corpses of fellow aquatic creatures need not be a deterrent.
Introducing water plants and 'scavengers' such as water snails and tadpoles into a pond is an easier and less expensive solution.
Immediately she got involved with the 'scavengers' and asked them to collect specific items like cellophane wrappers that cannot be recycled.
All that is left is a grim arena where matter is collected by 'scavengers' and transformed into useful merchandise.
Some are 'scavengers' - hagfish, crustaceans, sharks - which devour much of the whale's flesh and tissue over the course of a few months.
Scrap firms sometimes employed peddlers and 'scavengers' , but they more frequently relied solely on the skills of the owner to sort and evaluate scrap from refuse.
Low levels of natural antioxidants in pancreatitis indicate their increased utilization as 'scavengers' of free radicals.
It is pointless to note that incisions to a carcass by the teeth of predators or 'scavengers' often resemble knife cuts.
When the bison slaughter rose to its height, wolves and other 'scavengers' thrived on the availability of carrion, and wolf numbers probably spiked briefly.
Only 'scavengers' came regularly to collect discarded plastic and steel.
There were the small herbivores and 'scavengers' and hunters scuttling in the undergrowth, hiding from the larger predators who occasioned down from the heights.
To this end the city directed its 'scavengers' to deliver ‘clean’ garbage free of rotting vegetable matter to the site.
Peddlers also performed an ecological function as consummate street 'scavengers' , collectors, and recycling artists.
The omnivorous 'scavengers' could find food sources virtually anywhere and could survive without human care in the proper environment.
The word dogs is a strong insult in the Mediterranean world since dogs are generally regarded as 'scavengers' .
According to Alamsyah, most of the squatters in the area work as garbage men, 'scavengers' and do other odd jobs.
Land crabs are nocturnal 'scavengers' that climb trees, enter holes and are the invertebrate ecological equivalent of rats.
There are still one million people working as manual 'scavengers' all over India.
The buzz of flies permeated the air and the 'scavengers' of meat fed on the dead.
Carcasses left by wolves supply food for 'scavengers' such as ravens, eagles, magpies, and wolverines.
The destruction of nests discourages infestations by dermestid beetles and other insect 'scavengers' which could move to other household items.
Before the stallholders could even open the boot, 'scavengers' were on the back seat searching for tarnished gold.
I was intrigued by the passage of time and the parade of 'scavengers' , including bears, that reduced a giant among animals to scattered bones and a grease slick.
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