Scavenger
noun
An animal that feeds on dead and decayed material.
Vultures and hyenas are examples of scavengers
Often appears as...
- scavenger bird
- scavenger beast
noun
A person who collects and removes things that are no longer wanted.
After the festival, scavengers came to collect the old cans and bottles
Often appears as...
- garbage scavenger
- scavenger hunt
noun
A chemical substance that reacts with and removes particular molecules, ions, or radicals.
Hydroquinone is a well-known scavenger of free radicals
Often appears as...
- oxygen scavenger
- radical scavenger
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Technical
noun
A person who searches for and collects discarded items.
Scavengers can often be seen searching through the rubble after a disaster in hopes of finding useful items
Often appears as...
- scavenger sale
- urban scavenger
noun
An animal that feeds on dead and decayed material.
Vultures and hyenas are examples of scavengers
Often appears as...
- scavenger bird
- scavenger beast
noun
A person who collects and removes things that are no longer wanted.
After the festival, scavengers came to collect the old cans and bottles
Often appears as...
- garbage scavenger
- scavenger hunt
noun
A chemical substance that reacts with and removes particular molecules, ions, or radicals.
Hydroquinone is a well-known scavenger of free radicals
Often appears as...
- oxygen scavenger
- radical scavenger
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A person who searches for and collects discarded items.
Scavengers can often be seen searching through the rubble after a disaster in hopes of finding useful items
Often appears as...
- scavenger sale
- urban scavenger
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Pro Tip 1/2Nature's Cleaners
Scavengers play a vital role in the ecosystem by consuming decomposing organisms.
Scavengers like crows help keep the park clean by eating littered food scraps.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Carnivores
Though often carnivorous, some scavengers can also feed on plant material.
The opportunistic squirrel is a scavenger that enjoys nuts and seeds as well as insects.
Pro Tip 1/2Nature's Cleaners
Scavengers play a vital role in the ecosystem by consuming decomposing organisms.
Scavengers like crows help keep the park clean by eating littered food scraps.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Carnivores
Though often carnivorous, some scavengers can also feed on plant material.
The opportunistic squirrel is a scavenger that enjoys nuts and seeds as well as insects.
Pro Tip 1/2Nature's Cleaners
Scavengers play a vital role in the ecosystem by consuming decomposing organisms.
Scavengers like crows help keep the park clean by eating littered food scraps.
Pro Tip 2/2Not Always Carnivores
Though often carnivorous, some scavengers can also feed on plant material.
The opportunistic squirrel is a scavenger that enjoys nuts and seeds as well as insects.
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Discovering Wildlife in...
unlike their rural counterparts, These foxes have actually started to change. Their noses are getting a bit shorter to adapt to their more urban lifestyles of scavenging. And that's not all. Their skulls are actually changing shape in a way that could mean their brains are getting smaller.
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The fascinating history...
they protected bodies from scavengers and the elements, while shielding loved ones from the sight of decay. These benefits may have shifted ancient people’s thinking toward graves designed to honor the dead, and burial became more common.
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BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
Alfa couple will actively discourage last year's offspring from mating but one of their daughters has other ideas skulking behind the pack is a lone male wolf he has no territory of his own but follows the family scavenging leftovers
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Can VR help create...
scavenger hunts to see how the species have changed you fast forward in time to see the future and come back and we use a technique called body transfer developed by neuroscientist where you literally become an animal on the reef
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What crows teach us...
What might those early people have been thinking as they took the time to dig into the earth, deposit the body and carefully cover it up again? Were they trying to protect it from scavengers or stymie the spread of disease?
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10 Day Old Kitten Falls...
now survived by scavenging from fishermen the kittens are brought up in the perfect playground but they're busy mums have to juggle childcare with the important job of getting a mule and their chance comes just once a day
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Most Unusual Mating...
discourage last year's offspring from mating but one of their daughters has other ideas skulking behind the pack is a lone male wolf he has no territory of his own but follows the family scavenging leftovers
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Wolf Hunting Tactics PIPE...
Ecosystem they filter out sick and weak animals and herds and help scavengers survive by providing leftovers from their hunts this coyote however is not only a scavenger but also
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The Blue Planet...
sharks hagfish and a whole succession of different deep sea scavengers will feast on the carcass for years before all its nutriment has gone
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Pumas learn to share PIPE...
other scavengers is very very important for the whole ecosystem that the pumas are here and the population here is healthy
Video examples
Discovering Wildlife in...
unlike their rural counterparts, These foxes have actually started to change. Their noses are getting a bit shorter to adapt to their more urban lifestyles of scavenging. And that's not all. Their skulls are actually changing shape in a way that could mean their brains are getting smaller.
Video examples
The fascinating history...
they protected bodies from scavengers and the elements, while shielding loved ones from the sight of decay. These benefits may have shifted ancient people’s thinking toward graves designed to honor the dead, and burial became more common.
Video examples
BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...
Alfa couple will actively discourage last year's offspring from mating but one of their daughters has other ideas skulking behind the pack is a lone male wolf he has no territory of his own but follows the family scavenging leftovers
Video examples
Can VR help create...
scavenger hunts to see how the species have changed you fast forward in time to see the future and come back and we use a technique called body transfer developed by neuroscientist where you literally become an animal on the reef
Video examples
What crows teach us...
What might those early people have been thinking as they took the time to dig into the earth, deposit the body and carefully cover it up again? Were they trying to protect it from scavengers or stymie the spread of disease?
Video examples
10 Day Old Kitten Falls...
now survived by scavenging from fishermen the kittens are brought up in the perfect playground but they're busy mums have to juggle childcare with the important job of getting a mule and their chance comes just once a day
Video examples
Most Unusual Mating...
discourage last year's offspring from mating but one of their daughters has other ideas skulking behind the pack is a lone male wolf he has no territory of his own but follows the family scavenging leftovers
Video examples
Wolf Hunting Tactics PIPE...
Ecosystem they filter out sick and weak animals and herds and help scavengers survive by providing leftovers from their hunts this coyote however is not only a scavenger but also
Video examples
The Blue Planet...
sharks hagfish and a whole succession of different deep sea scavengers will feast on the carcass for years before all its nutriment has gone
Video examples
Pumas learn to share PIPE...
other scavengers is very very important for the whole ecosystem that the pumas are here and the population here is healthy
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Pardis Sabeti
Iranian Scientist
You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.
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Michael Rooker
American Actor
We had a thing there where you could turn in - it was some sort of recycling program - the bottle caps of RC Cola. You'd turn in 12 of them, and you'd get a ticket to see a movie. That's how I started going to the movies. Running around the neighborhood looking for bottle caps. We were like little scavengers.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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Edith Widder
American Scientist
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Waldemar Januszczak
British Critic
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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Liane Moriarty
Australian Author
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.
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Jimmy Buffett
American Singer
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Simon McBurney
English Actor
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.
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Bryce Dessner
American Composer
I like to think of myself as a musical scavenger.
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Pardis Sabeti
Iranian Scientist
You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.
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Michael Rooker
American Actor
We had a thing there where you could turn in - it was some sort of recycling program - the bottle caps of RC Cola. You'd turn in 12 of them, and you'd get a ticket to see a movie. That's how I started going to the movies. Running around the neighborhood looking for bottle caps. We were like little scavengers.
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Patti Smith
American Musician
Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.
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Edith Widder
American Scientist
I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.
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Waldemar Januszczak
British Critic
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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Liane Moriarty
Australian Author
I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.
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Jimmy Buffett
American Singer
Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.
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Simon McBurney
English Actor
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.
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Bryce Dessner
American Composer
I like to think of myself as a musical scavenger.
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