What Is The Scientific Name For An Animal That Eats Other Dead Animals?

(It's Not Detritivore)

What Is The Scientific Name For An Animal That Eats Other Dead Animals?
Scavenging, or necrophagy, is a carnivorous feeding behaviour in which a predator consumes corpses or carrion that were killed to be eaten by the predator or others of its species. Scavengers play an important role in the ecosystem by contributing to the decomposition of dead animal remains.





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Reply:Detritivore applies to very dead, long dead materials both plant and animal. Worms, shrimp and insect larvae may be detritivores. Scavenger isn't very scientific, nor is carrion-eater.
Reply:A scavenger.
Reply:Other dead animals? huh You mean just dead animals. Scavengers and or decomposers.
Reply:Scientific name usually implies binomial nomenclature. What you're looking for is a descriptive term. And I think its carrion-eater.
Reply:I believe Carrion is birds isn't it?





An animal that feeds off of dead bodies I believe is a Scavenger or decompose.
Reply:Carnivore.
Reply:Scavenger
Reply:A ZOOKEEPER
Reply:Scavenger?
Reply:Decomposer? I dunno!
Reply:carrion eaters.
Reply:a decomposer.... i think that's it. i learned it last year, so i am trying to remember.
Reply:necrovores?