How To Use Carrion In A Sentence
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Carrion Crow nests are conspicuous and we were able to observe birds delivering food to nestlings using spotting scopes.
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Western Gulls are omnivores and eat a variety of things including fish and other aquatic creatures, eggs, carrion, garbage, and other birds.
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Arthygater Katharos said, A crow is ill omened, such a tharais carrion-eater.
Wildfire
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They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs.
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The rats have placed in serious risk - on the edge of extinction - the Galapagos petrel, which is a marine bird unique in the world and of which only 120 remain," the project's manager, Victor Carrion, told The Associated Press by telephone from the islands.
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Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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After I pass, I see it in the rear view mirror, settling on carrion back along the shoulder.
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And I shall know that I must die, at sea most likely, cease crawling of myself to be all a-crawl with the corruption of the sea; to be fed upon, to be carrion, to yield up all the strength and movement of my muscles that it may become strength and movement in fin and scale and the guts of fishes.
Chapter 7
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What was decomposing the carcasses, given the total absence of fossils of the larger flies, such as flesh flies and blowflies (whose larvae, which we call maggots, feed on carrion)?
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Chromosomal sex determination can also be more complex, with multiple X and Y chromosomes, or maternal, as in the carrion fly Chrysomya rufifacies.
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they flew for the first time after being fed on a diet of rabbits, small mammals, frogs and carrion.
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Both marine birds feeding at sea and macrophytes and carrion washing ashore were significant sources of marine-derived nutrients in the Great Barrier Reef and the Gulf of California.
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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.
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Armstrong was first taken to Rio Carrion hospital in Palencia, then to the hospital in Valladolid.
Surgery ahead for Armstrong after crash at Spanish race
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Primarily a carnivore the wolverine captures most of its prey, though it is also an extensive scavenger, eating quantities of carrion.
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David Machuca suggested the Peruvian medical student Daniel Alcides Carrión, who wanted to know if "Oroya fever" - a lethal and hitherto unknown disease sweeping across his country - was linked to an increase in the incidence of growths wart-like eruptions known as "verruga peruana".
New Scientist - Earth
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Experimental animals were the first-generation offspring of beetles collected from carrion-baited pitfall traps in the field in May and June 2000.
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Bears like berries, nuts, grasses, carrion, insects and birdseed.
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Richard Haryson (1535) was fain to confess, in the deed of surrender, that the monks had, “under the shadow of their rule, vainly detestably, and ungodlily devoured their yearly revenues in continual ingurgitations of their carrion bodies, and in support of their over voluptuous and carnal appetites.” {243b} We cannot but suspect that such language was that of their enemies, put into their mouths, when resistance was no longer possible.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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[FOOTNOTE 87: spavined crowbait -- a lame, emaciated horse (from spavin, an inflammation of the tarsal or ankle joint of a horse, causing lameness, and an appearance that causes carrion birds to think a meal is in the offing)] "A very sad --" began Judge Menefee, but his remark was curtailed by a higher authority.
Heart of the West [Annotated]
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Humans don't necessarily get sick from eating carrion.
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Among the most conspicuous of the first colonisers at Mount St Helens was the common raven, known to eat almost anything, including carrion.
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Very likely," I thought, "the repentant-knight, who warned me of the evil which has befallen me, was busy retrieving his lost honour, while I was sinking into the same sorrow with himself; and, hearing of the dangerous and mysterious being, arrived at his tree in time to save me from being dragged to its roots, and buried like carrion, to nourish him for yet deeper insatiableness.
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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You'll see new views, new beauty - purple nannyberry seeds, the golf ball-size blooms of carrion flower and the weird sci-fi flowers, like computerized explosions, of buttonbush.
CounterPunch
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The large monitor lizards have a more varied diet and will eat eggs, birds, small animals and carrion.
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As well as carrion, harriers will eat the young of pukekos and ducks, and prey upon rodents found in fields.
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Left-over, winter-killed berries and carrion are the primary food sources for emerging bears in springtime ...
Bear Trees Man In Alaska
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Indeed when things are dissolved and made thus tender and soft, and are as it were turned into a sort of a carrionly corruption, it must needs be a great difficulty for concoction to master them, and when it hath mastered them, they must needs cause grievous oppressions and qualmy indigestions.
Essays and Miscellanies
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From a distance, their posture on a ridge is that of a crow on carrion.
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Most viverrids are nocturnal hunters, feeding on small vertebrates (including carrion), insects, and other invertebrates including worms, crustaceans, and molluscs.
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Henry of Navarre was a victim of bromidrosis; proximity to him was insufferable to his courtiers and mistresses, who said that his odor was like that of carrion.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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As they continue on the road, the sky is filled with carrion birds and wolves feed on the bodies of unburied orcs.
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They are carnivorous, scavenging among carrion or preying on other molluscs, using their extensible proboscis, tipped with a radula, to reach into and extract nourishment from their victims.
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They have also been known to steal prey from other raptors and to eat fresh carrion.
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As they soar over foraging areas, they scan the ground, searching for carrion or scavengers that might signal the presence of something dead.
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Despite their fearsome size, these magnificent birds survive mainly on carrion and hunting small mammals like mice.
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• Other species you can hear include wood pigeon, carrion crow, blue tit, blackcap, mallard, pheasant, coot and the great-crested grebe.
Listen to the National Trust audio guide to Britain's bird species
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THE other species may very properly be called the coped vulture, and is by the inhabitants called the carrion crow; as to bulk or weight, he is nearly equal to either of the others before mentioned.
Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
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The service is performed for stinkhorns by flies, which are attracted by the smell of rotting carrion which they emit and which accounts for ‘stink’ in their name.
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They stripped from the bodies what little flesh the wolves and carrion birds had left.
EVERVILLE
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They have ‘newcomer’ written all over them, and the con-artists and pick-pockets gravitate towards them like jackals scenting carrion.
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They scavenge for carrion and garbage and also prey on rodents and on the eggs and nestlings of other birds.
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The rats have placed in serious risk – on the edge of extinction – the Galapagos petrel, which is a marine bird unique in the world and of which only 120 remain," the project's manager, Victor Carrion, told The Associated Press by telephone from the islands.
Full-Scale Assault Launched Against Invasive Galapagos Rats
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And the tomtit and canary have, no doubt, at least private agreement that the utterances of the nightingale are _galimatias_, while the carrion crow thinks the eagle a fool for dwelling so high and flying so much higher.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
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They may steal prey from other raptors, and have been known to eat carrion as long as it has not been dead too long.
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Meanwhile, 29 species of habitat generalists - like the carrion crow and the wren - have increased by an average of 23 percent.
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Before that happens, the asteroid/planet fragment is attacked by Interstellar Carrion feeding off the dead and dying planets.
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Biologists, however, have reported some bees taking advantage of other resources, such as animal droppings and carrion.
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Each occasion a large gull or carrion crow passed overhead, the buntings took all wing, providing a most impressive spectacle.
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They are often seen soaring in search of carrion, but their diet also includes young goats and lambs.
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But, no! no! I tell you, no! You shall never be able to utter more than _pec, pec, pec_; and while with your mouths open you are stammering and stuttering to get out _cavi_, Satan and his blackguards shall come and peck you, even as crows peck carrion.
The Adventures of Hugh Trevor
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The beast of prey skulking back to his lair, the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to the carrion that night has provided, the crane flapping to the shallows, and the jackal shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, have each and all their portent to the initiated eye.
Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series
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As they continue on the road, the sky is filled with carrion birds and wolves feed on the bodies of unburied orcs.
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Instead, he believes Rugops was a scavenger, using its head to pick at carrion rather than fighting other animals for food.
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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The whole place looks dead and deserted, a ruin fit only for the dead and carrion birds ... ... and so on.
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Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
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For the willfully, viciously stupid carrion feeders that comprise the backbone of Reichwing religionists, such a notion is as alien as Jesus caring for the poor.
Think Progress » Palin blames ‘Gore-gate’ for ‘this snake oil science stuff.’
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Missing/mutilated eyes and soft internal organs are explained as the action of carrion feeding insects such as blowflies, and opportunistic or carrion birds such as vultures and buzzards which are known to direct themselves toward an animal's eyes, and to enter the body through the openings of the mouth and anus in order to feed on soft internal organs.
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Each occasion a large gull or carrion crow passed overhead, the buntings took all wing, providing a most impressive spectacle.
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Although she applied a fresh astringent of sanicle when she changed my bandages, the carrion trapped in the dewclaw infected the wound and it healed badly.
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Turkey do male audire in this kind: Constantinople itself, where commonly carrion lies in the street.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Although they scavenge less often than Bald Eagles, they will eat carrion of deer and elk, especially in winter.
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Diversionary feeding involves leaving dead rats and other carrion on the moor for the harriers to eat.
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Carrion crows, large gulls, hawks and herons all receive severe punishment.
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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.
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Adding to its standard diet of insects, berries, bird eggs, and occasional scraps of carrion, the pup increases its protein intake by hunting mice, voles, and lemmings.
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(_Synonyms: _ Peruvian Warts; Carrion's Disease; Oroya Fever.) #Describe verruga peruana.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
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They eat fish, mammals, birds, bats, invertebrates, carrion and some fruit.
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Shrieks rent the air as another crow spiraled down to invade the feast, some carrion invisible from the roadside.
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Meanwhile, there'd be new gardens in rich efflorescence, ossified bedrock dislodged from the living, new fields where carrion feeders can graze.
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Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
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Yet their scavenging clears up immense quantities of carrion, and we should be grateful, if not admiring.
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But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.
The Lost World
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Skuas and jaegers also display reversed size dimorphism to a similar degree to raptor species that feed on carrion, insects, reptiles, or mammals, but are less dimorphic than those that feed exclusively on birds.
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The trees outside camp appeared as dark pillars gating a primeval hell, where behind lay only an abyss, hiding the forms of carrion crying from its depths to break the stillness.
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Badgers will kill carrion and have been know to take lambs but the ones they tend to go for are those on their last legs.
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They may steal prey from other raptors, and have been known to eat carrion as long as it has not been dead too long.
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While the mourners were busy in the vault, the three village hags, who, notwithstanding the unwonted earliness of the hour, had snuffed the carrion like vultures, were seated on the “through-stane,” and engaged in their wonted unhallowed conference.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
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Unlike most other fabled beasts it preferred to scavenge carrion from the forest floor rather than kill for fresh meat.
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Carrion crows bewail the dead sheep and then eat them.
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They are carnivorous, scavenging among carrion or preying on other molluscs.
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A survey of fox dens showed that the vast majority of lamb carcasses found in them were carrion ie. dead before being taken by the fox.
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Carrion is laid out to attract the feathered carnivores, and regular diners include whitenecked ravens, lanner falcons, jackal buzzards, black eagles and cape vultures.
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Sausage, hamburger steak and "game" with a high flavor, are little if any better than carrion, and the poisons which such foods introduce into the body must all be detoxicated by the liver and eliminated by the kidneys, and thus they are worn out prematurely by overwork.
Northern Nut Growers Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-First Annual Meeting Cedar Rapids, Iowa, September 17, 18, and 19, 1930
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Black bears are omnivorous; their diet consists of about 75 percent vegetable matter, 15 percent carrion, and 10 percent insects and small mammals.
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As a group, members of the genus Trillium are commonly known as trillium, wakerobin, toadshade, squawroot, or carrion flower and they have recently gained interest as garden plants.
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Some observers have suggested that carrion on train tracks actually aids overall eagle survival by providing fledglings with a ready food supply.
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People who consider the carrion-eating habits of vultures disgusting might want to stop reading right now.
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He declared that while the red-muzzle mouse is omnivorous and feeds on vegetable and animal organic matter, it is ‘very rare’ that it should consume carrion.
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The officers there are gentlemen -- they don't talk to scavengers, buffoons, carrion !
KARA KUSH
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The diet of the red kite seems to consist largely of carrion and some birds.
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When the bison slaughter rose to its height, wolves and other scavengers thrived on the availability of carrion, and wolf numbers probably spiked briefly.
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Its light glimmered on the river and on the wings of carrion fowl awheel overhead.
Time Patrolman
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Their diet includes fish, smaller birds, carrion, and refuse.
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Anyway, the crowner in the story about Luis Carrion is that he's probably this month starting his studies at Harvard's J.F.K. School of Government and Economics.
Children of Cain: Violence and the Violent in Latin America
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It lives mainly on carrion, but farmers and gamekeepers shot, trapped and poisoned the bird because they believed it might endanger breeding grouse.
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Some observers have suggested that carrion on train tracks actually aids overall eagle survival by providing fledglings with a ready food supply.
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This bird is quite common in the urban areas where it feeds on refuse and carrions, and hence its dirty reputation.
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In some way, Entelodonts could represent a continuation of "Andrewsarchid" morphotype, a kind of omnivore, bone-crushing, carrion-eater that could represent the original morphotype of hypothetical mesonychian-andrewsarchid-cetartiodactyl common ancestor.
ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
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Yes, there will be protests by animal lovers, but perhaps more pertinent is the fact that large birds of prey or carrion are notoriously uncooperative in matters of providing predictable and directable propulsion.
Unconventional Inventions
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vultures usually feed on carrion or roadkill
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Huge carrion birds gorged on the flesh.
