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Australian scavengers don’t just eat everything and slink away. They approach a carcass like a buffet

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par Niraj Meisuria, PhD Candidate, Disease Ecology Lab and Global Ecology Lab, University of Sydney
Thomas Newsome, Associate Professor, Global Ecology, University of Sydney

When scientists talk about scavengers, you might imagine an animal sniffing out or stumbling across a carcass, eating as much as possible, and slinking away.

But like all foods, a dead animal holds a variety of macronutrients – carbohydrates, lipids (fats), and protein – all within the same carcass, or meal. Just as an egg has a high-protein white and a higher fat yolk, carcasses are similar.

Scavengers are typically thought of as unfussy scroungers that will eat whatever is available, but our new research…

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