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Nature's cleanup crew, eating the deaths nobody else will touch and saving us all.
means A creature or person who feeds on or collects discarded, decaying, or leftover things that others have abandoned.
from From the Anglo-Norman 'scawage' (or 'scavage'), a medieval toll levied on goods offered for sale by foreign merchants. The official who collected it was a 'scavager' — and his duties later expanded to keeping the streets clean. The intrusive 'n' crept in over time (the same way 'messenger' grew from 'message' and 'passenger' from 'passage'), and the word drifted from tax collector to street cleaner to anything that lives off others' leavings.
- stomach acid
- Vultures digest anthrax and cholera unharmed
- free service
- Scavengers prevent disease by clearing corpses fast
- bald heads
- Vultures lost head feathers to stay clean while feeding
- keen senses
- Turkey vultures smell carrion from a mile away
- crisis
- India's vulture collapse caused half a million human deaths
mit scavenger hunt — annual competition where mit students complete absurd tasks like 'get a picture with a random person's grandmother'
amazing race — cbs reality competition show since 2001 where teams race across continents completing scavenger-like tasks
geocaching — worldwide treasure hunting game with over 3 million hidden containers using gps coordinates