Talk:Scavenger

message: This page is currently discussing two different topics: the feeding mode of certain animals and a means of livelihood of some persons. The latter is also discussed on a different page, waste picker, so I would like to move that information from this page to there. What do people think?Justinleif 01:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say go for it, especially since there is a page already, though it'll turn this poor page into a stub.  Either that or merge that one here, though that could get confusing. -Bbik 06:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: The page seems to be broken. I tried to revert the last change (I wasn't logged, sorry), but an admin re-reverted it. Why? --Manfroze 20:01, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
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message: Can someone check the references in the article for support for this quote:
:Such behavior is still witnessed today with men traveling great lengths at high speeds in order to avoid paying full price for food, preferring to scavenge out of the bins of the moderately wealthy.
The phrasing seems unusual... twilsonb (talk) 21:34, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious - Reference to Travelling Long Distances 

message: i am a student of class 7c.i am from school st.mary's convent high school.i have got a project on survey of scavengers.i have the job of writing questionnaire on scavengers.please if u can then send the answer on this computer.by the way my name is sejal.R.wagh.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.143.46.166 (talk) 15:49, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  scavengers 

message: Should this page maybe have a warning about the graphic pictures? I mean those guys're pulling that horses skin off with their hands... And the cameras aimed at the inside of the horse. I don't know if Wikipedia has a style guideline on marking pages with graphic content or not, but I imagine there's rules about it somewhere. --illumi (talk) 18:16, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not censored. "Graphic" images, if illustrating the article content are acceptable. Boneyard90 (talk) 00:40, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic Pictures 

message: Just popping in to compliment whoever wrote the Etymology section. It's fantastic. 24.130.190.8 (talk) 05:51, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I have reverted the removal of referenced material on stomach acidity in humans as a contributing factor in the lack of necrophagy. The reference does indicate scavengers have a much higher level of acidity. Ifnord (talk) 19:06, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: From the reference, figure 1, "Different letters above error bars represent statistically significant differences (P < 0.05) using ANOVA and Tukey-Kramer post-hoc test. Obligate scavengers (1.3 ± 0.08), facultative scavengers (1.8 ± 0.27), generalist carnivore (2.2 ± 0.44), omnivore (2.9 ± 0.33), specialist carnivore (3.6 ± 0.51), hindgut herbivore (4.1 ± 0.38) and foregut herbivore (6.1 ± 0.31)." The actual illustration in the article conveys this quite clearly. Ifnord (talk) 01:38, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of referenced section on humans 

message: The article defines scavengers as "animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation."  Many of the most familiar scavengers feed largely on organisms that have been killed by predation.  For example, readers will be familiar with images of vultures picking at the carcass of a zebra that has been killed, and partly consumed, by lions: is that not scavenging?
And yet by that definition, scavenging applies where it is not usually thought to: if adults of a species feed dependent young with what they have foraged, is the offspring a scavenger?
Is every human who consumes meat from a catering outlet or shop a scavenger? They are eating an organism that dies from a cause other than predation.  Is eating in a fancy restaurant really scavenging?  Kevin McE (talk) 11:51, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with the definition 

message: The article says:
      The interaction between scavenging animals and humans is seen today most commonly in suburban settings with animals such as opossums, polecats and raccoons.
It is not clear what dead animals opossums, polecats, and raccoons eat or how this activity constitutes interaction with humans. Also, opossums and raccoons are also founding urban settings. I know because I live in one that has them.
Rmrwiki (talk) 06:29, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Incomplete information

message: wikilink Necrophagy inside the text returns back to the current article; if so and provided the above equation is valid; then intro sentence should include Scavenger or necrophagy in some form. no? Araz Zeyniyev (talk) 12:01, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Necrophagy = Scavenging ?