| 单词 | carrion |
| 例句 | “The flies are awful secret police that tear us as if we were carrion,” Hal tells her. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z A lazy hunter, it was searching for the lifeless shape of carrion. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Repent, sinners, foul carrion, unworthy of our Lord’s great sacrifice! Fast! Do penance!” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z From time to time the guards waved their spears to chase away the kestrels, gulls, and carrion crows paying court to the deceased. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The air reeks something horrible, a combination of carrion, rotting eggs, and Cadets’ quarters in high summer. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Ravens soared through a grey sky on wide black wings, while carrion crows rose from their feasts in furious clouds wherever he set his steps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Already a brutal-beaked carrion crow was tearing at the face of one of them, and Will could see a bigger bird circling above, as if choosing the richest feast. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He looked out at the burial parties and the lights beginning to come on across die field like clusters of carrion fireflies. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a castle made entirely out of food, except that on the highest tower of all a carrion crow was sitting, with an arrow in its beak. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z My flesh will feed the wolves and carrion crows, she thought sadly, and worms will burrow through my womb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tyrioii saw no bodies, but the air was full of ravens and carrion crows; there had been fighting here, and recently. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But others, probably overcome with smoke, escaped the worst of the flames and now lie reeking in various states of decomposition, carrion for scavengers, blanketed by flies. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “As well make peace with wolves and carrion crows.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The jaeger preyed upon lemmings, small birds, and occasionally carrion. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z There were carrion crows wheeling in the air above the gray battlements, and Will felt a jolt of sickness as he realized what had drawn them there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They are parasites and scavengers, eaters of carrion. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The sweet, carrion scent of dogwood filled the air; in the evening sunshine, the insects hummed around the dense white cymes hanging low above the grass. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My mind streamed, full of thoughts; I could feel the government people circling like carrion birds. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Humans also had a far easier time chewing and digesting old favourites such as fruits, nuts, insects and carrion if they were cooked. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The carcasses of burnt and butchered animals dotted the ground, under living blankets of carrion crows that rose, cawing furiously, when disturbed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But if the city was alive, then he could expect to be drawn and quartered and fed in pieces to the carrion birds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Putrefying bodies, bodies consumed by carrion eaters were constantly replaced, but the heading always advanced. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Teeth in the jaws, sharp as any hreshtek, and, in the great eye sockets, just as he had said: carrion bird nests. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “She seemed well enough. She did display some interest in the gossamer-winged butterflies. I wish she had shown more interest in the carrion beetle collection, though. They are, after all, exceptionally fine specimens.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z And suddenly they all rose up like ravens frightened from carrion and wheeled away, flapping, silent, in the direction that Serret in her gull-shape had flown. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z From some roadside carrion an owl, huge and dark, its large yellow eyes glinting briefly in the headlight beams, took off, flying directly into the car’s path. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And the people were troubled in their minds; for the heaps of carrion were too great for burial or for burning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z ‘We cannot leave him lying like carrion among these foul Orcs.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Jody hated them as all decent things hate them, but they could not be hurt because they made away with carrion. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z One of his shoulders was much higher than the other, and he stooped over his trencher like a vulture over carrion. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘He’s nothing but carrion now. What Lugbúrz will do with such stuff I can’t guess. He might as well go in the pot.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z And usually these carrion talkers were the same ones who had said one American was worth twenty Germans in a scrap—the same ones. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There were carrion birds in the sky, circling and cawing ugly cries that Lazlo imagined translated as Die so we can eat you. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z It was clear that we had to sit there like wooden carrion until, if we were lucky, high tide would float us off. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “You he, you vile piece of carrion flesh!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She saw mourning doves peck at carrion on her doorstep and visited the botanicas for untried potions. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lewin sat at his desk on the third floor, crouched over his typewriter like a vulture dining on carrion. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Uncle Al is a buzzard, a vulture, an eater of carrion. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z "Hack off their heads, we'll send them back to the Wall. Leave the rest for the carrion crows." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z They tore into the bag like jackals into carrion. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z This is to allow visitors to catch a whiff of the beast, which waits until dark to emit its stench as a way of luring pollinating carrion beetles. Corpse flowers are invading the East Coast: Here’s how to see (and smell) one 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z There, on one desperate night, the men chase off a small pack of wolves that has downed some prey, and then the travelers fall to their knees to feast feverishly on the carrion themselves. | 'The Way Back': Pushing the Limits of Endurance 2011-01-20T23:13:53Z It is a great draw for pollinating carrion beetles and flies. Rare trio of stinky corpse flowers to bloom at Washington garden 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z Though technically not part of the show, masked and black-cloaked audience members made the whole thing even more atmospheric, flocking around key scenes like crows around carrion. How Punchdrunk breathed life into The Drowned Man 2013-06-05T17:00:00Z “You will savor God in the carrion,” she says, and puts a dead bird in her hands. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The information presented makes quite clear that this is a stench that evolved to attract carrion flies, but you may think, how bad could it be? In ‘Life at the Limits,’ Extreme Creatures at American Museum of Natural History 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Constant references to “carry-on” luggage start feeling more and more like invocations of carrion. Review: ‘Quicksand,’ Robert Ashley’s Enigmatic Spy-Thriller Opera 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Even if that means supplying a steady diet of frozen dead rats for the carrion beetles in the “Traits of Life” exhibit. The unheralded, but essential, work behind an exhibition 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z During its peak it emits an odor of rotting flesh to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies that help its pollination process. Giant ‘corpse flower’ draws crowds in Southern California 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z There wasn’t a big gap, as there is in most lives, between being carefree and being carrion. The Devilish Life and Art of Lucian Freud, in Full Detail 2021-01-18T05:00:00Z Back at Lockhart Gardner, the buzzards were circling, with Will the carrion of choice. ArtsBeat: 'Good Wife' Watch: Alicia and the Blondes 2012-03-05T06:00:55Z It is a great draw for pollinating carrion beetles and flies. Rare trio of stinky corpse flowers to bloom at Washington garden 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z In one sonnet, Hopkins takes up the notion of comfort directly: “Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee …” Rembrandt and Gerard Manley Hopkins: How to Take Comfort in Art 2014-05-20T04:00:00Z Oh the crows and the vultures above his head Were brawling already over this live carrion. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z Many others explore the line between what he calls “being so blissfully carefree and so balefully carrion” and also “the collective pain/with which we’ve been inundated.” Books Of the Times: Shared Homeland, Different Worldview 2010-09-16T22:36:00Z They seem to largely subsist on freshwater invertebrates, small fish and bits of carrion. An unintended consequence of more fencing at the border? It might make it harder to identify a new salamander species. 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z He resembled a vulture on a perch, scanning for carrion. Music Review: Meshuggah and Baroness at Terminal 5 2012-05-24T22:31:32Z A great many species of fly feed, in their larval or maggot form, on what Hall delicately calls "carrion". Lords of the flies: the insect detectives 2010-09-23T07:00:00Z He meets a crow which already seems to look upon him as carrion. Wintry passions 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “You will savor God in the carrion,” they chant. For Latin American Women, Horror and Fantasy Capture Everyday Struggle 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Eaters of carrion and corpses, they are sometimes even said to convey the soul into the afterlife. A book-length historical fantasy about a crow? It’s not as birdbrained as that sounds. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z If old age is carrion, it’s also, as a “Citizen Kane” character put it, the one disease you don’t look forward to curing, which provides the impetus for the movie’s finale. ‘Old’ Review: They Say Sun Can Age You, but This Is Ridiculous 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z They note that models like this might improve our understanding of how the availability of carrion can influence the evolution of predators. Giant dinosaur carcasses might have been important food sources for Jurassic predators 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z Those who scavenged off the carcasses of sauropod carrion were twice as likely to have reproductive success. Dinosaurs might have been more cannibalistic than previously thought, study finds 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z In terrestrial ecosystems, decomposition of dead animals, or carrion, fuels biodiversity and is an important link in food webs. Your microbes live on after you die. A microbiologist explains how 2023-10-02T04:00:00Z Corpse flowers produce a stench that mimics rotting animals, attracting pollinators such as carrion flies and beetles, which usually lay eggs on animal carcasses. Another rare corpse flower set to stink up the Huntington with the smell of dead rats 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z Over the two years that followed, Mr. Hiemstra and his colleagues discovered several other nests, built by Eurasian magpies and carrion crows, that contained anti-bird spikes. ‘They’re Outsmarting Us’: Birds Build Nests From Anti-Bird Spikes 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z Flies are attracted by rotting flesh and carrions. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But their study further supports their theory that sauropod carrion played a significant role in feeding the dinosaur kingdom, and that allosaurus were in fact cannibals. Dinosaurs might have been more cannibalistic than previously thought, study finds 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Scientists also learned the condors’ carrion of choice has changed over the years. News at a glance: U.S. tallies old-growth forests, Canadian scientists march for higher pay, and condor poop reveals the birds’ ancient history 2023-05-03T04:00:00Z The researchers also found evidence that the condors’ carrion of choice changed as animal populations shifted across the region. 2200-year-old pile of excrement provides window into condors’ past 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z As scavengers, they only eat carrion and risk ingesting lead when they consume the remains of animals killed with lead ammunition. Newest flock of wild California condors faces an old threat: lead poisoning 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Some plants strategically attract flies by synthesizing polyamines similar to those generated by decaying flesh and thereby attract carrion flies. Fundamentals of Biology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite having widely available living prey, it was actually more beneficial to the carnivores to scavenge off the carcasses of sauropod carrion than hunt new prey. Dinosaurs might have been more cannibalistic than previously thought, study finds 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z The "total stinker" is irresistible to carrion flies which pollinate it. Cambridge orchid in bloom smells like rotting cabbage 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Three other men crawl toward the art on hands and knees, leaving slimy trails behind, drawn like slugs to carrion. Review: At MOCA, painter Tala Madani playfully smashes the patriarchy with pie 2022-09-14T04:00:00Z The number of species of carrion eaters has increased because of the predatory activities of the wolves. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Among birds, for example, some eat and disperse seeds whereas others eat carrion, helping to recycle remains. The most distinctive birds are the ones most at risk of extinction 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z The man likes to carry on, but he is not carrion. Opinion | GOP ‘built on fraud, fear and fascism’? If the jackboot fits ... 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z "To the carrion flies and beetles that pollinate it in the wild, it smells amazing." Cambridge orchid in bloom smells like rotting cabbage 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Similar rates of lead exposure were found in golden eagles, which scientists say means the raptors likely consumed carrion or prey contaminated by lead from ammunition or fishing tackle. Nearly half of US bald eagles suffer lead poisoning 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z The ancients here would usually be cremated or likely left in their version of a “sky burial,” for the carrion crows to pick clean, the bones collected later, or not. British archaeologists found a 5,000-year-old drum and three children locked in a neolithic embrace 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Scientists found that meat-eating “vulture bees” have evolved more acidic guts that harbor acid-tolerant bacteria, similar to those found in vultures and hyenas, letting the insects safely consume carrion. In Case You Missed It 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z Though the eagles were first described in the late 19th century, the question of whether the creature was a hunter or carrion feeder went unresolved for decades. This Extinct Eagle May Have Gulped Guts Like a Vulture 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z The aroma comes from "mimicking something that is rotting, and it is doing that to attract carrion flies, which are insects that feed on rotting meat and vegetables", the garden said. Cambridge orchid in bloom smells like rotting cabbage 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The bloom of the “corpse plant” lasts just 48 hours and during its peak it emits a putrid odor of rotting flesh to attract carrion beetles and flesh flies that help its pollination process. Giant ‘corpse plant’ draws crowds in Southern California 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z For years, frustrations and disappointments had settled on him like carrion birds. In the shadow of the towers: Five lives and a world transformed They have been noted feeding on carrion, scat, rotting fruit, sap, and occasionally flowers. Try a little butterfly viewing in Okanogan County | Provided by Okanogan County Tourism Council 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z They’ll eat anything — carrion, invertebrates, plant matter — which helps keep ponds clean. 35 western pond turtles are released in Lakewood pond, bolstering endangered population 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Two black carrion crows swooped down on the unprotected head of a woman passing by. Emerging From One Plague, Some Romans Face Another: Attacking Crows 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z Caracaras are frequently ground-dwellers, clacking around on the rocks and scavenging smaller birds, eggs, insects and carrion. Review | A particular fascination with a peculiar bird 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z The theories range from scavengers such as carrion bugs eating the carcasses to people attacking the animals to cause financial harm to ranchers. Cattle in Oregon again found dead amid strange circumstances 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z If the researchers beat the scavengers, they could collect tissue and other materials—including maggots feeding on the carrion—that could help answer a fundamental question: What do animals in the jungle die of? This wildlife vet tracks deadly microbes in the African jungle. Now, he’s on the trail of COVID-19 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Then it served up the Phoenix Suns-New Orleans Pelicans game, in which the Pelicans were rendered carrion midway through the fourth quarter, at which point they trailed 108-68. Perspective | This Wizards season was hyped as a thriller. It’s opened more like a horror show. 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z What they lack in beauty, they make up for in resourcefulness, playing an important part in the ecosystem by eating carrion and roadkill. Small town besieged by hundreds of giant black vultures 2020-12-19T05:00:00Z The result was less early-winter carrion for the park’s many scavengers, such as grizzly bears and ravens, with dead elk bunching up at the end of relatively severe winters. Otters Show How Predators Can Blunt Climate Damage 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z They trained two lab-raised, 1-year-old carrion crows to move or stay still in response to a faint cue displayed on a monitor. Newfound brain structure explains why some birds are so smart—and maybe even self-aware 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z In the Tübingen group’s experiment, two carrion crows were trained to recall a previous experience to guide their behavior. Bird Brains Are Far More Humanlike Than Once Thought 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The latest paper, published by the Royal Society in June, looked at the creation of a “landscape of fear”, as top predators such as wolverines, golden eagles and arctic foxes took advantage of the carrion. 'Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z “Apart from the ‘undertakers’ — the carrion eaters like currawongs, ravens and shrike-thrushes — picking off the dead bodies, there’s nothing much left in the forest. Daily briefing: Origin of repeating fast radio burst deepens its mystery 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Apart from the ‘undertakers’ — the carrion eaters like currawongs, ravens and shrike-thrushes — picking off the dead bodies, there’s nothing much left in the forest. ‘Deathly silent’: Ecologist describes Australian wildfires’ devastating aftermath 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “In the wild, it’s pollinated by flies. That’s why it’s got that fetid carrion scent.” Dead rats, putrid flesh and sweaty socks: rare orchid gives UK botanists their first whiff 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z “Then replacements took up the grisly task. Four days, four nights of it. Those cries, those screams, those expirations, the apotheosis of all bloodiness, with carrion men groaning for burial.” Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Another discovery was that non-scavenger birds such as the meadow pipit, northern wheatear, common reed bunting, bluethroat and lapland bunting all fed on the “bloom” of arthropods, such as blowfly, that developed on the carrion. 'Landscape of fear': what a mass of rotting reindeer carcasses taught scientists 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Scavengers like carrion bugs and birds prey on what soft tissue is left. 5 Oregon bulls mutilated on ranch with sex organs, tongues missing in suspected ‘occult’ ritual: officials 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z When there isn’t fish available, they use their powerful curved beaks and razor-sharp talons to catch — or steal from smaller raptors — waterfowl, squirrels, mice and carrion. Bald eagles have found themselves a new home: Suburbia 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Or perhaps because owls often are attacked and harassed during the day by carrion crows, kestrels and other birds. White Barn Owls Thrive When Hunting in Bright Moonlight 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z Bellatrix began to peel open Monday night, emitting its strongest stench within the first 24 hours to attract pollinators such as flies and carrion beetles that usually feed on dead animals, Schroeder said. Corpse flower and its stench draws crowds to Amazon Spheres 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z This homegrown cadre of outrage generators feeds off Britain’s dearest national myths — the underdogs, the gentleman scholars, the put-upon working classes, the plucky outsiders — like carrion. Perspective | A British boor is just Trump with a posh accent and veneer of ironic detachment 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z For all its ferocious reptile rep, scientists still debate whether the living Tyrannosaurus rex was a dominant predator or just a toothy scavenger, feasting hyena-like on the carrion of the late Cretaceous. ‘The Nation’s T. rex’: How a Montana mom’s hike led to an incredible discovery 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z Protested by hunters and local ranchers, the move is credited with benefiting other species such as eagles and bears that feed off carrion killed by wolves. Seeing Yellowstone through the eyes of wolves, pumas and other predators 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z They are what is considered a “facultative scavenger”—they eat carrion when it’s available but are quite capable of hunting their own prey when it’s not. Wolves and Wolverines: A Complicated Relationship 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z A parent beetle will eat a bit of carrion, predigest it and, on being tapped on the mouth by an offspring’s front legs, transfer the morsel into the little supplicant’s mouth. Everywhere in the Animal Kingdom, Followers of the Milky Way 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z What they eat: Wild fruit, berries, grains, household scraps, carrion, small mammals and birds. Garden bird winners and losers over 40 years 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z In addition to eating fish such as carp - which they lure with skinny pink tongues that look like worms - the turtles are scavengers, vultures of the deep who scrub carrion from riverbed bottoms. Houston wildlife study reveals ‘ancient’ denizen of bayous 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The theme of motherhood and its discontents gets chewed on like a vulture tearing at carrion, but so does the topic of ethnic nationalism. Review | ‘Suspiria’ is a beautiful mess and stars Tilda Swinton in three roles and don’t ask us what it means 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Over the years, people have suggested that the marsupial lion fed on everything from carrion to wild cucumbers, he adds, although palaeontologists have long agreed it was a carnivore. Climate change implicated in marsupial-lion extinction 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Ravens are associated with carrion — and so with battlefields and execution grounds. The secrets of the Tower of London’s royal ravenmaster 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z They chew up rotting wood and eat carrion. ‘Hyperalarming’ study shows massive insect loss 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Incidentally, “that’s exactly what the carcasses are creating,” Dr. Steyaert said, explaining that abrupt shifts in soil nutrients and acidity from rotting carrion kills vegetation. Hundreds of Reindeer Died by Lightning. Their Carcasses Became a Laboratory. 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z In its native environs, the plant’s perfume mimicking decomposing carrion attracts pollinators like dung beetles, sweat bees and flesh flies, which crawl into the flower and get covered in its pollen. Reeking 'corpse flower' is poised to bloom at Huntington Library 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z The insects are important because they feed on carrion. Push to weaken US Endangered Species Act runs into roadblocks 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z In the corpse flower, the volatile odor is dispersed by the heat the flower generates as the phallus-like bloom emerges, attracting carrion beetles and similar connoisseurs. Why Is the Corpse Flower So Stinky? 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z The secretions used on their carrion - the animals they bring into their broods - also preserve the animal and prevent decay. Conservationists help endangered beetle population 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Hyenas and other carrion eaters in a section called Nature’s Sanitation Department.Credit: Israel’s treasure chest of wild riches and ruins opens 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Shambling away from the carrion he is consumed by a body-shaking thirst. Review | One foot in the grave and one on solid ground in ‘Vampyr’ 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Ibis eat various fish, frogs, small mammals, reptiles and smaller birds as well as insects and other invertebrates, and carrion. Escaped bird caught at industrial estate 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z Hogs are omnivores, eating just about anything including plants, small animals and carrion. Once established, feral hogs hard to contain, eradicate 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Researchers from Portugal and Spain tagged 71 carrion birds for three years, and noticed that only 13 of them ventured into Portugal over that period, the Correio da Manha newspaper reports. Why vultures are avoiding Portugal 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z As that realization dawns, the actors in this sick charade then surround Chris in a dark, secluded place like carrion and pretty much just shout this until the mental wheels start to come off: Netflix's new reality show will attempt to convince an ordinary person to commit...murder? - Golf Digest 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Shortly afterward, a small eagle, a bateleur, landed on our carrion. The Carcass Race 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Bears aren’t likely to want to eat a dog - their diets lean more toward fish, small native mammals, insects, carrion and garbage - but an irritated bear could take a swat at a dog, injuring it. California Editorial Rdp 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Burying beetles like American carrion beetles arrive next, followed by “skin” or brown beetles. Coffin Flies, Corpse-Eating Beetles, and Other Bugs with Gruesome Jobs 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z He is merely a carrion bird feasting on its remains, and probably not important in historical terms. Democracy’s dyin’, who’s got the will? What France’s election tells us about the state of modern discontent 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z The discovery suggests that badgers may play a previously unknown, but important, role in removing rotting or diseased carrion—helping ranchers, and themselves, in the process. Watch this badger cache a cow 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z My hypothesis was confirmed—the mammals were spying on vultures, gaining valuable information about carrion resources. The Carcass Race 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z They are among the largest flying birds in the world, speeding at up to 55 mph on air currents in a search for carrion such as deer. These creatures faced extinction. The Endangered Species Act saved them. 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Sadly, when vultures and other scavengers eat the carrion, they are poisoned, too. Opinion | Dogs are man’s best friend — but one of wildlife’s worst foes 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z But 10-15% of bald eagles die in the first year because of lead poisoning, Stewart said, in part because the young birds almost exclusively eat carrion. Bald eagle population threatened by lead poisoning, US scientists warn 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z We contend that such outlets are no true replacement for the naturally random food pulses associated with wildlife carrion. Rewilding: Vulture restaurants cheat ecosystems : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z They are slow swimmers and are nearly blind, but are capable hunters, eating fish, marine mammals and carrion. Long in the tooth: the Greenland shark may live four centuries 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Compounding the problem, carrion killed by lead shot poisoned birds that fed on the carcasses. These creatures faced extinction. The Endangered Species Act saved them. 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Why should carrion birds have all the fun of roadside dining? Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About Roadkill Attracted by the corpselike smell, they crawl into the flower, find no carrion, and get stuck in gooey pollen, which they carry out with them and spread throughout the world. Eight Days of the Corpse Flower: A Diary 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Predation helps to stabilize food chains by buffering oscillations in the availability of carrion, which are linked to climate events and disease epidemics. Rewilding: Vulture restaurants cheat ecosystems : Nature : Nature Research 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The plant’s common name comes from the stench it produces to attract pollinators like carrion beetles and flies. New York Today: Awaiting a Corpse Flower Bloom 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z The primary source is ammunition in the carrion that condors ingest. Condors Reach New Milestone of Survival, Thanks to Tree-Climbing Biologists In spring and summer, the peak seasons for insects like blowflies that are attracted to carrion, the pigs decomposed more rapidly than the human subjects. What Dead Pigs Can’t Teach Us About ‘C.S.I.’ 2016-06-13T04:00:00Z Animals that rely upon the carrion of elk killed by wolves also suffered. Can America learn to love the big bad wolf? There are signs of change 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Eagles, in turn, can eat the poisoned carrion. Raptor riddle: Deaths of eagles in Delaware, Maryland baffle investigators 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z After hatching, larvae crawl to the carcass and both parents feed them regurgitated, pre-digested carrion. Beetle's chemical signal tells mate, 'Honey, I'm not in the mood' 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Researchers paired off males and females, provided them with peat and carrion, and began observations. Beetle Moms Send a Chemical Signal: ‘Not Tonight, Honey’ 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z The raven’s somber black plumage, unearthly voice and attraction to carrion inspired humans, who associated them with otherworldly forces and mysterious beings. The Raven, the Original Goth, Makes a Home in New York 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z He reminded me, in a not entirely unlikable way, of an animal busy in carrion, like a jackal. The Art-World Insider Who Went Too Far 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z The predators' battle over carrion was shot in the snow-covered Trossachs. Where eagles dare: Fox takes on large raptor for a meal - BBC News 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z They are unique among these birds as they use their sense of smell to find carrion. Tree-top turbulence helps flapping vultures soar - BBC News 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z During its lifetime a single devil may devour hundreds of brushtail possums, for instance, as well as large quantities of carrion. Can Tasmanian Devils Beat Cancer of the Face? 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z They work alongside hundreds of Marabou storks that scavenge for carrion and scraps of food amid the stench. Toxic Kenyan dumpsite embodies pope's environmental concern ahead of Africa trip 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z Remarkably, most of the species are birds which are attracted to carrion. Viewpoint: Why did Neanderthals capture birds? - BBC News 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z And the Yankees’ lineup of savvy veterans set upon him like wolves on carrion. Mets and Yankees Clash With One Eye on October 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The scientists believe that by staying low, Turkey vultures increase their chances of sniffing carrion while avoiding the notice of higher flying birds that use visual cues to spot food. Tree-top turbulence helps flapping vultures soar - BBC News 2015-12-24T05:00:00Z The heat helps to distribute sulphurous compounds - the "atrocious stench" - across vast distances in its native Sumatra to lure pollinators, thought to be carrion beetles and blowflies. Cambridge University titan arum flower attracts 11,000 visitors - BBC News 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Its smell is designed to attract insects such as flies and carrion beetles, which normally feed on decaying flesh, which will help pollinate it. The Secret of the World's Smelliest Flower 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The two European kites - Red and Black Kites - are well known scavengers of carrion, offal and human rubbish. Viewpoint: Why did Neanderthals capture birds? - BBC News 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z The buyers of these securities are mainstream investors on the hunt for yield, but also distressed-debt funds that were set up in early 2015 to pick over the carrion of the shale industry. Fractured finances 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Black bears eat plants, fruits, nuts, insects, honey, salmon, small mammals and carrion. Black bears journey to Arkansas towns 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z In lean times, they will stoop to carrion. Eagle versus porcupine: Camera snaps a painful face-off 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z In contrast, the sixgill’s large, coarsely serrated ivories performed the poorest, but that shark depends on carrion for food. Video: A chainsaw spiked with shark teeth 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z And yet news organizations — including The Post — have fallen on this story like hyenas on carrion. Richard Cohen: In the Sony e-mail scandal, our cyber nightmares are coming true 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z Last year, a study of the gut microbiome of alligators, also carrion eaters, found high levels of the same two bacteria2. Microbes help vultures eat rotting meat 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Specifically, they suggest using fences to exclude the unwanted, earthbound customers, and dishing up the extra meat in random locations instead of re-stocking a regular carrion pantry. Hyenas feast at vulture restaurants 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z It was full of rules and details from his home D&D campaign, including creatures like the beholder, carrion crawler, owlbear and gelatinous cube. The Rust Monster: A History And Preview From The Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z The company’s modus operandi is to browse for dead product categories, looking for freshly dug graves that might contain carrion ripe for reanimation—digital music players, tablet computers. Never Offline 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z A comparison of the carrion and hooded-crow genomes showed that the sequences are almost identical. Baffling Genetic Barrier Prevents Similar Animals from Interbreeding 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z The Beltway press is portraying Mr. Boehner as merely serving carrion to the tea party vultures, and no doubt he hopes in part to sate the political appetites of the backbench. Is Boehner prepared to 'wager the House's reputation'? 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Costa Rica were supposed to be a carrion for the rest of the ‘Group of Death’ to feed on, but ended up being the ones gorging on their carcasses. World Cup 2014 power rankings: Colombia rule after group stage 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Six men, including the wicketkeeper, perched around the last batsmen, as if crows waiting for carrion. Sri Lanka win second Test with one ball left to end England resistance 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z But although the crows still look very different — carrion crows are solid black, whereas hooded crows are grey — researchers have found that they are almost identical genetically. Two crows kept separate by their looks 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Washington’s political detritus, carrion and offal are unpalatable even to vultures. Birds of a feather . . . When a vulture finds carrion, he eats it and put it to better use. Dear Washington Post: Lobbyists Are Predators, Not Scavengers 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Buzzards and other birds routinely consume carrion, for example. Q&A: Clean Living in a Dirty Birdbath 2014-05-12T19:12:35Z Great spotted cuckoos are also parasitical on carrion crows, but as crow chicks are much larger than cuckoos they are never out-competed and crow parents always manage to raise a few young of their own. Cuckoo Chicks Bring Benefits to Nests They Parasitize 2014-03-26T21:45:00Z To the west, the skies belong to the carrion crow. Two crows kept separate by their looks 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z The park is surrounded by roads and houses which pose a danger to a bird which feeds on carrion at ground level. Town centre owl's 'unique behaviour' 2014-02-09T17:45:08Z The car would not be a minute out of the driveway, he knew, before the household staff fell on these boxes like wild beasts upon carrion. Zadie Smith: “Moonlit Landscape with Bridge.” 2014-02-03T05:00:00Z This infuriated many palaeontologists, who say the matter was resolved long ago by ample evidence showing that could take down prey and dismantle carrion. Palaeontology: The truth about T. rex 2013-10-23T17:20:31Z Researchers discovered that the plant emits puffs of this odour to attract carrion eating insect pollinators from across its Sumatran jungle home. 10 heat secrets caught on camera 2013-10-02T14:40:25Z If these regions do become swamped, he predicts that hooded crows will become more like carrion crows because carrions are the socially dominant birds. Two crows kept separate by their looks 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z For about 48 hours, long lines of visitors tried to inch close enough to get a whiff of a terrible smell that in the natural world attracts carrion eaters like dung beetles and flies. Washington, D.C., Corpse Flower Ends Its Stinky Reign 2013-07-24T13:45:02.267Z Sharia law forbids meat such as pork and birds of prey, plus blood and carrion. Halal business: Consuming passions 2013-05-23T15:05:17Z Others, in more remote areas, will be left as carrion for the birds and foxes. Weather kills Welsh wild ponies 2013-04-18T20:00:47Z Condors are scavengers and mainly eat large amounts of carrion. Lead threat grows for rare US birds 2013-04-17T07:25:34Z He says that the data show genes flowing mainly from hooded to carrion crows, making adoption of the hooded traits by German carrion crows “a fate that seems unavoidable”. Two crows kept separate by their looks 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z Calvignac-Spencer and colleagues collected carrion flies in two tropical habitats: Taï National Park rainforest in Côte d'Ivoire and dry, deciduous Kirindy forest in Madagascar. Corpse-Seeking Flies Reveal a Forest's Biodiversity 2013-01-08T18:20:00Z Dr. Leendertz's team captured 115 carrion flies in forests in Ivory Coast and Madagascar by baiting traps with meat. Green Blog: In Flies' Innards, Vital Clues to Biodiversity 2013-01-08T13:08:30Z By baiting nets and traps with meat, the team collected carrion flies from Taï National Park in Côte d'Ivoire and Kirindy Reserve in Madagascar, and found that 40% of them carried mammal DNA. Flesh-Eating Flies Map Forest Biodiversity 2013-01-04T18:45:00.620Z Photograph: Andrew Drysdale / Rex Features The circling and landing of carrion birds on waste tips is common enough. Don't let Biffa go to waste 2012-10-04T17:30:01Z In late spring and midsummer, she placed dead rabbits and roadkill in various areas around the refuge and then set up traps to collect carrion insects as they were attracted to the carcasses. Conventional Forensic Theory on Order of Bugs That Feast on Corpses Upended 2012-09-13T17:45:06.207Z In the wild, monitors feed on carrion, crocodile eggs, fish and birds, but in captivity they will eat small rodents and fish, the zoo said. Nile monitor lizard loose in Colorado mountains 2012-07-18T00:50:30Z Because carrion flies are notoriously indiscriminate eaters, they yield DNA from a broad sample of species. Green Blog: In Flies' Innards, Vital Clues to Biodiversity 2013-01-08T13:08:30Z The eagles sent to the repository can arrive in poor shape, sometimes little more than carrion and not suitable for rituals. Eagle Center Struggles to Supply American Indian Rituals 2012-04-27T17:45:03.927Z It is not possible for us to advance very far from our own lines, since, as eagles swoop down upon their carrion, so would the Boers from other quarters attempt to rush the town. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z "It's quite a surprise from the standpoint of carrion ecology," he says. Conventional Forensic Theory on Order of Bugs That Feast on Corpses Upended 2012-09-13T17:45:06.207Z In the carving we have the crows first coming upon the sight of the counterfeit carrion as it lies near a rabbit warren. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z Then die and lie Till Saggia spy The carrion stuff— A tug; a shove, And the friend you love Is gone to grass: Ha, ha, alas, is gone to grass. Nuova or The New Bee 2012-03-26T02:00:41.423Z Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, Ð persecutions, inquisitions. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z Such carrion mimicry has evolved in at least ten plant lineages. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z This is the first example I've seen of carrion beetles behaving according to a different physical scale compared to the typical pattern. Conventional Forensic Theory on Order of Bugs That Feast on Corpses Upended 2012-09-13T17:45:06.207Z Isn't it plain that if killed they would only be decaying carrion by the time the wasp grub was ready to eat them, and young wasps must have fresh meat, not dead and decayed flesh. Insect Stories 2012-03-21T02:00:36.600Z Although naturally herbivorous animals, they have been known to devour carrion with all the voracity of beasts of prey, to eat and mangle infants, and even gorge their appetites with their own young. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z Meanwhile traces of maggots and carrion beetles that set on the hominins after death could reveal how long the bodies were exposed before the cave’s flowing sediments buried them. First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? 2012-03-20T15:15:04.437Z Flies are known to prefer larger carrion, which provide better sites to lay eggs, and so perhaps they prefer larger carrion mimics, too. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z The flower may grow from carrion, but we do not find it the less beautiful, the less pleasing to our various senses. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The older writers say that they eat carrion, but further evidence to that effect is required before the statement can be believed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z But Hannibal de Tavannes laughed; laughed in his moustache, his teeth showing, and bade them move that carrion to a distance, for it would smell when the sun was high. Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z The original Hus character is conceived by the Wintus as striving toward religious purification as strenuously as the earthly buzzard works at cleaning the earth of carrion of various descriptions. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z I am surprised: it smells more like wet socks than carrion. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z And we should have exactly as good reason to regard the carrion as elevated by its office as to regard the flower as degraded by the source of its life. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Here these insects have been deceived by vision, and imagined in their illusion that they had safely lodged their progeny in carrion. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z You who prate of trust and confidence, who received your life on parole, and but for your promise to me would have been carrion this month past, answer me that! Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France 2012-03-15T02:00:24.837Z As we drew near the walls the smell of carrion, which had hitherto but spoiled the air, filled the nostrils and sickened the whole man. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z But all this carrion about the little Owl’s disordered house reminds one forcibly of the important part the bird plays in the economy of nature. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z As a matter of fact, we merely find the flower pleasing and the carrion abhorrent. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The horse recollects the tree, the carrion, the object that startled him, whatever it might have been; but to this reminiscence are associated the chiding, the punishment he received from his rider. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z And there are a great number of worms in Hadley churchyard, which should have had jolly feeding upon this carrion which they have looked for many a day. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z They come over to the East Coast in hordes in the autumn, mostly from Russia, where they also interbreed with the carrion crow. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Though an inordinate lover of carrion, a wise instinct has taught it that this aliment is unsuited to the tender stomachs of its fledglings; these it feeds almost exclusively on the young of small birds. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z He died in the air, and his carrion rolled in amongst you without ceremony: made you jump I warrant me. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z That the chevalier--useless lump of carrion--should proclaim himself a fool was only to be expected. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z Like their patron Mephistopheles, however, they do not care for carrion, nor do they destroy furniture or stuffs. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z A gamekeeper in this neighbourhood had shot a fine carrion crow, and hung up his prize, as usual, on a nail near his cottage. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z "Stinking carrion pollutes the air and we are forced to breathe in a slow poison." Nepal Residents Feed Endangered Birds at Vulture 'Restaurants' 2012-02-07T17:45:07.370Z Since your heart beats for vermin, feel for the carrion crows! they be as good vermin as these: would ye send them to bed supperless, poor pretty poppets? The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z You see, they gather round the carrion, and I don't suppose you would care to apply that term to the farmers in our vicinity. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z The Prince shot several galahs, and if his bag did not include any carrion crows this was chiefly because the good work of shooting them had already been so efficiently done. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z The trail of stripped red carcasses which they left behind them glutted all the wolves, coyotes, and carrion crows for leagues about, and affronted the wholesome daylight of the plains. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z He's animate carrion without reason or sensibility now. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z In the East Indies, a great many of the rejected castes live on carrion, dead fish, noxious insects, and even the middle class find wheat flour too dear, and therefore mix it with peas, etc. Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II 2012-01-25T03:00:34.150Z He then left the engag�s to carry the skin to the52 boucan, with a few of the best joints, giving the rest to the carrion crows, that soon sniffed out the blood. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Minor enemies of the squatter are the black carrion crows, creatures justly execrated by every back-block man. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z It shall attract the pestilence that walks, even at noon-day, in darkness, to the very vitals of the drunkard, as carrion invites the far-sighted birds of prey. Recitations for the Social Circle 2012-01-17T03:00:22.643Z They were prohibited from using the Romany tongue, from retaining their gipsy surnames, from wandering about the country, from eating carrion, and from dealing in horses. Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers 2012-01-17T03:00:20.443Z My lungs are pain’d, My nose is sick, with this eternal stench Of corpse and carrion, with which earth is fill’d. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The shark and the sea monster swam by their canoe, the carrion crow that fed to-day upon the carcase they had left, too often fed to-morrow on the slain hunter. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z In an opinion that came with a long appendix, he called “Deep Throat” “this feast of carrion and squalor,” “a nadir of decadence” and “a Sodom and Gomorrah gone wild before the fire.” Joel J. Tyler, Judge Who Ruled ?Deep Throat? Obscene, Dies at 90 2012-01-14T22:51:56Z One was a large black bird, resembling the turkey-buzzard, and subsisting on carrion. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z Their eggs are generally esteemed good eating, as well as the flesh of those in the interior parts of the country, though they feed on fish and carrion. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z The City Government of Boston went extensively then into the carrion and garbage business, and furnished the provant for a legion of hogs, the property of an influential citizen of Roxbury. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z The cottonmouth seems to be an opportunistic omni-carnivore, because it eats almost any type of flesh that is available, including carrion. Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) 2011-12-17T03:00:17.963Z They catch and kill their own prey, but unlike the vultures will not eat carrion. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z With a shudder he turned away as a European might have turned from carrion. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Another sable scavenger, the black vulture or carrion crow, of similar habits, but with a more southerly range, is common in the Gulf States. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z "We'll parade over that south range like buzzards sighting carrion," Meeker continued, leading the way homeward. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z The stench at his abode is overpowering; all around lies carrion in every stage of corruption, while swarms of loathsome flies rise and buzz heavily around the intruder. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z A dog-kennel, with its usual accompaniment of carrion, is a favourite resort, and there are probably few butchers' shops in country villages which he does not frequently visit. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Over each poor body the carrion crew settled like flies, and tore and screamed and quarrelled. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z Because it feeds on carrion that not even a goat grudges it, and is too lazy and cowardly to pick a quarrel, the buzzard has no enemies. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The Jackals had eaten up all the carrion in the woods, and had nothing to eat. Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales 2011-11-17T03:00:35.327Z Their food was of the foulest—they shrank not from carrion, and have been accused, apparently not without reason, of cannibalism, for which in early days many a gitano swung from the gibbet. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z In these expeditions they do not confine themselves to carrion, but prey indiscriminately on all animals which they are quick enough to capture and strong enough to master. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Professor Osborn, on the other hand, is inclined to consider him as a reptilian hyena, feeding upon carrion, although one can but feel that such an armament is not entirely in the interests of peace. Animals of the Past 2011-11-16T03:00:27.497Z The Raven builds its nest in high trees and among inaccessible and precipitous rocks, especially in the Hebrides, and lives on carrion, not disdaining fruit and grain. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z I remember me well the last we threw into the emperor's kennel, the dogs made such a fighting for the carrion, that he ordered each of us a flagellation for the disturbance. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z There was, however, no carrion about, nor any very offensive smell, such as would have characterized the home of a vulture. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Crows are carnivorous; Rooks feed principally on the grubs of beetles, worms, and noxious insects, rewarding themselves occasionally for their services by regaling on corn and fruits, but rarely touching carrion or molesting living animals. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Queer those hungry wolves didn't scent it; but then they don't eat carrion as a rule, like the coyotes. Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country 2011-10-21T02:00:18.430Z It much resembles the hyæna in appearance and habit, and feeds on carrion and white ants. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Not only are the rooks there in legions, having their rookeries in the park, but, throughout the forest, daws, carrion crows, jays, and magpies are abundant. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z The Neophron I have never seen take any living thing; it only eats carrion, garbage, and offal, but I have found dead snakes in its nests. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z At times it rises high into the air, and, soaring in circles, examines the surface of the ground for carrion. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Ashley Hartman, 26, who lives nearby, said farmers would bring dead cows or other carrion to Thompson to feed the wild animals. Wild Animal Escape From Ohio Farm Like ‘Noah’s Ark Wrecking’ 2011-10-19T21:45:02Z In the Northumberland Household Book, these birds, with many others, are named as then served up at table, but which are now discarded as little better than carrion. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z This colony may have sprung from a bird hatched and reared in the nest of a carrion crow or magpie. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Some naturalists seem inclined to hold that the bird is only a vulture, subsisting on carrion, and fearing to attack any living prey. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Like the rest of the Gulls, they are omnivorous, but are, more than any others, addicted to carrion, in quest of which they often wander inland; hence, they are sometimes called Carrion Gulls. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z But few men wounded by a tiger ever recover; for the shock and the blood-poisoning set up by the unclean claws of the carrion feeder are almost invariably fatal. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z How many a worthy American have I seen myself, in Cuba, cast away when dead, as you would a carrion, not even a coffin to cover him; and why all this? Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Notwithstanding that he was half-blinded, he dared not come out on to the quay where Smetse was, but swam off towards the other bank, decked with his carrion and blowing like a hundred devils. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z On my appearance at his abode the unsightly little brute at once disgorged a mass of carrion that necessitated an immediate retreat. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z He was rolling in a lump of carrion. The New Paul and Virginia Positivism on an Island 2011-10-08T02:00:25.133Z Along the moonlit trail there came wavering whiffs of orchids, ranging from attar of roses and carnations to the pungence of carrion, the latter doubtless distilled from as delicate and beautiful blossoms as the former. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z However, they could have died from malnutrition and been eaten as carrion. Ecological Studies of the Timber Wolf in Northeastern Minnesota 2011-10-03T02:00:28.037Z Vertebrate remains found in the stomachs of box turtles seem to result chiefly from the ingestion of carrion. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z A little distance off upon a pinnacle of rock he saw a vulture, a hideous, horrible, unclean, carrion bird. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The wolf, the carrion bird, and the fair woman Hurry upon a corpse, as if they think That all is left for them the grey gods need not. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z There were princes and princesses abroad accompanied by handsome bands of retainers, who drove the common people off the driving-road as if they were mere carrion crows. Wang the Ninth The Story of a Chinese Boy 2011-09-12T02:00:25.620Z For the harrier, Harold the red, and his merciless brother, black Ulf, With their men on the shore of the wintery sea were carrion cold for the wolf. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z All these animals must have scented the carrion from a great distance: and nobody could tell precisely where they came from. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z Where the carrion is, there cometh the kite; and so it was in this case—to some extent at all events. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z By-the-by, what peculiar instinct or what sense is it that enables those sea-gulls to determine the presence of carrion in the water at almost incredible distances? In Touch with Nature Tales and Sketches from the Life 2011-08-31T02:01:35.803Z "Bring that carrion to the guard-house and put some one on the gate that can keep his eyes open," Van Slyck shouted to young Lieutenant Banning, officer of the day. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z Potts his name was, old Venus Potts, the best looking chap in the school among other things; and there he was, cooking carrion at twenty-five bob a week! The Thousandth Woman 2011-08-15T02:00:25.383Z "Take that Polish carrion, throw it into the stable, and guard it as the eye in your head!" With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Now, Leduc, and you, Violet, take up this carrion and carry him near enough to the fighting up yonder to be clear of all connection with this house. A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 2011-08-04T02:00:19.957Z That was dead; this horrible thing had bred festeringly in the carrion.... The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z If he would not be tempted from grubs and carrion, what a worthy bird he might be accounted. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z Round Charing Cross in carrion row The crowd press in; a sight to see; Their mouths agape, their eyes aglow, With morbid curiosity. Rebel Verses 2011-07-22T02:00:18.367Z The wolves will shout 'Allah!' over your carrion pretty soon. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z This adaptation allows the shark to eat sharks, rays, fish, seals, and carrion. Shark Observation Network 2011-07-21T18:45:00.317Z "Some ships have truck with carrion and dog meat," he snarled. The Sea Bride 2011-07-30T02:00:14.537Z He was too merciful to the "sick man" to drive away the carrion flies that were already surfeited, and let in a fresh swarm of blood-suckers. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z And there are a great number of worms in Hadley churchyard, which should have had a jolly feed upon this carrion, which they have looked for many a day. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Pork sausage would be cheap, but their carrion is not fit for dogs. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z The hermit marvelled much that his comrade should so do, and that he should hide his face because of the knights, he that had not so done for the carrion. Tales from the Old French 2011-07-09T02:00:12.200Z And there, scattered around, lie the bones of the murdered men, broken and picked nearly clean by the carrion beasts and birds of the wilderness. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z More of the great carrion birds rose, flapping their huge white pinions and soaring leisurely away, and then the reason of the gathering was made plain. The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:23.353Z Up then, thou quaking carrion, for thy hour is come.—Well done! All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z Hei! you filthy fools, is it little of your carrion that lies on the field smelling like dead dogs? With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z It is indeed a fine service to trap such carrion. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z Nothing like snow for covering up a trail, and by the time it’s open again there’ll be not much left of yon carrion. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z Regardless of what happens, the outsiders are ready to pounce like vultures circling carrion. Scaling Down in Afghanistan: Obama's Tricky Decision 2011-06-23T00:02:42Z It is popularly believed that lions will not eat carrion. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z "Your carrion is not fit even for dogs!" answered the Cossacks. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z Several men of unsavory reputations who had come, like buzzards scenting the carrion from afar, were advised to leave town and stay away. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z “There’s more carrion for you, you black devils,” he muttered, apostrophising the ravens. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z You are generous, my little mother, to defend one of the greediest kestrels who ever struck claw into carrion; but you are not just. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Gambling commenced in deadly earnest, and the sharpers, with the eye of the vulture for carrion, descended upon the place. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z She was one who demanded the firstlings of the flock; he was nothing save carrion for daws to peck at. The Red Mouse 2011-05-30T02:00:14.700Z In the great Province of Bengal, The scavenger is the Jackal, For it doth love each night to feast, On the carrion of some beast. Poems of James McIntyre 2011-05-11T02:00:21.477Z Several carrion crows, with hoarse croak, flitted from boulder to boulder in ominous expectation of coming carnage. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z This rude bird called his father the Governor; you see, as he had been brought up among carrion crows, his manners were none of the best. The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z But still, his enemy had secured the south corner: “He graced his carrion with, God curse the same!” Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z Like all members of the genus, his diet is less restricted than that of the true eagles; and he even takes carrion. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z Meditating on the Divine perfection, he came to regard himself as "entirely hideous, vile and stinking, beyond the most abominable carrion." Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z But where is the use in bagging one of their carrion carcasses and losing the game? The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z He got back a few days later, tired and hungry, and spent the rest of his days on the dust-heap, eating carrion. The Giant Crab and Other Tales from Old India 2011-05-07T02:00:31.307Z These carrion of democracy actually belonged to neither side. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z I left the bodies of my enemies where they had fallen—accursed carrion! First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z Monsters, who need superstitions, just as the gizzard of a raven needs carrion! A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z He will be dragged out of his bed, thrust into some loathsome prison which he will never quit till his carcass be thrust forth to be flung like carrion into some ditch! The Spanish Cavalier A Story of Seville 2011-03-31T02:00:19.850Z In an interview printed in the New York Sun, Dr. Shaw referred to the anti-suffrage leaders as "vultures looking for carrion." Anti-Suffrage Essays 2011-03-28T02:00:24.710Z But they are not; instead, passing overhead in straight onward flight, with a quick, earnest plying of wings, evidently making for some point where they expect to stoop upon carrion. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z Go on, and mind you be quick in hiding that carrion from the crows.” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z This valley of Tophet was the "Clamart" of Paris, the place where they deposited all the rubbish and carrion of the city. A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z "It would bring down their enemies like buzzards on carrion," said the Basket Woman. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z A man does not put into a box bound with iron the carrion which he meets on the highway; he merely passes around it.” The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt 2011-03-08T03:00:42.177Z Me to go off into the bush for months and rustle new diggings, and then tell a lot of perambulating carrion like you where I struck it! The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z The epicurean mink had chosen only the choice portions and left this carrion for any scavenger that might come. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z Well, I see you don't like it: no one does; the smell of the coffin, sir; time enough when we are carrion, and fill it. The Tenants of Malory Volume 2 of 3 2011-03-04T03:00:56.067Z Such is their lot in life—but after death? carrion, my good people, carrion! The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z They were fighting over some particularly attractive bit of carrion. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z The periodically returning wars, and the extensive stock of cattle kept throughout the habitable parts, feed, with never-failing supplies of carrion, horrible gangs of hyenas, jackals, dogs, and vultures. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z Vultures are carrion eaters, meaning they eat the carcasses of dead animals long after any other predator would give it a look. Ugly animals need love, too 2011-02-18T14:15:00.253Z On the extreme summit of a feather-pine, the carrion crows croaked and rocked in the soft breeze. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z They lived by the chase and upon wild plants, honey, locusts, and carrion. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The procession marched to the cry of 'To Montfaucon with the Huguenot carrion! The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Fat carrion crows hurried their unwieldy flight and, higher in the air, a frequent lone hawk sailed out of the west, while now and then a road-runner cut across his path with hasting feet. The Delafield Affair 2011-01-19T03:00:21.497Z Dead!—without one visible wound—her sweet plumage hides it.—Thou hellish carrion, this is thy hellish work! Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z The "objection" was being lodged, and in its turn objected to, and I can only liken the process to the screaming warfare of seagulls round a piece of carrion. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z Yet they have all grown up on carrion. The Yellow Rose 2011-01-12T03:00:29.407Z The cook, who had prompted the priest to make a present of the ox to his nephew, hoped that the smith and all his family would be poisoned by feeding on carrion flesh. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z No; it will eat almost any thing,—little quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, and even carrion, upon a pinch. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Let no man put asunder the carrion and the crow. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z Condors are carrion eaters, and in recent years the Big Sur birds have turned to what was historically a major food source: marine mammals. New Hurdle for California Condors May Be DDT From Years Ago 2010-11-16T06:00:00Z When he nails an assassin bucket, he grits his teeth as if tearing through carrion on the open plains. Ventre: Kobe has plenty of support in finals rematch 2010-06-01T23:34:00Z There is evidence that maggots and carrion beetles, but not carnivores, fed upon the rotting carcasses, leading the scientists to conclude that the carnivores, too, must have died from the fall. New Hominid Species, Au. Sediba, Discovered in South Africa 2010-04-08T15:14:00Z He asserted that they never devour their prey until it becomes quite decomposed—that is, until it attains the condition of carrion. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Again the flesh of the arctic fox is eaten as readily as that of the hare or white partridge; all other foxes are carrion; even a starving Indian would give them the go-by. Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. I say, Bob, and you Archy," he continued, turning round, and selecting two persons from the mob, "will ye no join us in giein a lift to the carrion? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Yet there were almost no carrion birds, no ravens or crows, no small vultures, although once very high up in the air we saw a great condor. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open He will carry my counsels to Cortes when the cony carries food to the serpent, and the sick ox to the carrion crow. Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico The body of this Swedish king was torn asunder by carrion birds, and he was remembered as "the Vendel-crow," a mocking nickname which pretty clearly goes back to primitive times. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Armadillos are omnivorous, feeding on roots, insects, worms, reptiles and carrion, and are mostly, though not universally, nocturnal. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Bears are attracted by the smell of the castor and rub themselves against the tree in the same way as a dog rubs on carrion. Deadfalls and Snares A Book of Instruction for Trappers About These and Other Home-Made Traps They are also fond of carrion, and even the flesh of their own kind. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Set your snare in such places or around old carrion in bushes, cedar is best, use weeds rolled round your snare, don't use too many as they will notice. Fox Trapping A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot - A Valuable Book for Trappers It feeds on fishes, water-snakes, carrion, &c., and makes its nest in reeds or grass adjoining water. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis It feeds on carrion, small mammals, insects, &c. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide "You may keep the carrion," said the French general flippantly, as he handed the relic to the Grand Master, minus the ring. The Story of Malta They are nasty creatures, but so useful in carrying away and devouring all carrion, that the State authorities won't allow them to be shot.' Left on the Prairie If one declines to pollute his hands with bearing such carrion to the grave, all the rest decline also. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers Having been arrested in the house of my wife's parents, he was racked alive, and his body left to the carrion birds. Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster They live on fish, and any small animals or carrion, and sometimes catch pigs on the shore, or dogs which are swimming. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide But the pretty thing was, they couldn't eat the meat after all, for when it was boiled it was as tough as carrion, and as black as a turf. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry And haggard-eyed and worn, stern vengeance done, Beth huddled by the poor stiff clay of him She loved, the smoking weapon in her hand To scare the scavenger of carrion brand. Provocations They are very fond of carrion, but such food should not be given, for it is likely to cause disease. Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. The river stagnates, pestilent With carrion by the current sent This way and that—and yonder lies The moon, just like a woman dead, That they have smothered overhead, Deep in the skies. Poems of Emile Verhaeren It feeds on fish, carrion, fish-spawn, oceanic mollusca, and other small marine animals. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide A vulture hovering over a heap of carrion! An Engagement of Convenience A Novel They divide with the hyænas the office of carrion scavengers; and the promptitude with which they discover and devour every dead carcass is truly surprising. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Most animals will eat carrion, yet it is doubtful if it is advisable to feed when in such condition. Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. They drive the vulture from carrion, and eat with relish the intestinal worms of the ox. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" It is one of the most voracious carnivorous birds known, and in India, from its devouring all sorts of carrion and noxious animals, is protected by law. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The heap of carrion!—he had stooped for the sake of it, and it was now even more loathsome than his former morbid perception of it. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel "Say, rather, if you have the vulture's appetite, you must go where there is carrion!" cried Glencore, with a voice to which passion lent a savage vehemence. The Fortunes Of Glencore Hence the amount of food furnished by mammals, either alive or as carrion, may be higher than my figures indicate. Food of the Crow, Corvus brachyrhynchos Brehm, in South-central Kansas Like a carrion bird she fed best upon corruption. Life on the Stage Haul this carrion deeper within the jungle," he told his sober-faced men, "and rouse the camp. The Return of Tharn Full many a feast has the eagle had Of carrion slain by me: I have fought my last fight, And I pass to the night; And now he shall feast on me. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes Your toe sticks in a bit of carrion, as we pass near the grave and seek the sexton. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Dogs, drawn by the scent of carrion, were already prowling about with eyes glaring from hunger and greediness. Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity It was astonishing to see how soon the birds would discover small carrion from their great height. A-Birding on a Bronco They were beasts of prey, carrion brutes, like those which prowl about a battlefield. The Tremendous Event I discredit the statement that they feed on carrion, as I have never seen one near the carcasses of the dead transport animals that are only too plentiful in the valley just now. The Unveiling of Lhasa As well expect the bees to seek carrion instead of roses. The Day of His Youth Was he to be left hanging there as a feast for the carrion birds? Bert Wilson at Panama "My galley is lighter by so much carrion!" he would say on such occasions. The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion There were dying men and dead bodies, the death-rattle of Frenchmen mingling with Englishmen, blood, sticky rags and a loathsome stench of carrion. The Tremendous Event A group of stolid vultures, too demoralized to range in search of carrion, stood motionless on a rock above, waiting the next dispenser of charity. The Unveiling of Lhasa Its presence was manifested by the stench from far off from the carrion of the dead. An Artilleryman's Diary Though mostly carnivorous, feeding chiefly on animals they have chased and killed themselves, many, especially among the smaller species, eat garbage, carrion, insects, and also fruit, berries and other vegetable substances. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" They surge in the cloak-room, quarrel over carrion game, blaspheme, fight and scratch. Carnival He made an ugly figure under the clear light of the morning, like the decaying things around him, where the carrion flies were beginning to swarm in the sun. Where the Pavement Ends After feeding upon the flesh of a brave man I will not that my alligators be poisoned with such carrion as this. The Induna's Wife For in the torn and mangled body these carrion ghosts were devouring, the battered skull and swollen features, I recognised what had once been Gungana. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story Soon the jackals scented the carrion, their peculiar wailing cry coming nearer and nearer. The Ruined Cities of Zululand “Thou art not dead yet—toad—carrion bird!” 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War The raven went and saw the carrion on the water, and it ate, it swam, it wandered away; it did not return. Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments “There is that without these swarms of white carrion,” replied Tambusa, and his voice was as the snarling of a beast. The Induna's Wife "Throw yon bloody carrion across the back of some degraded horse, and then on to Leicester, where we will spend the night," said the King, as he pointed to Richard's body. With Ring of Shield The conger is especially fond of squid or other Cephalopods, while the eel greedily devours carrion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" Northwest Smith, peering up at them with a steel-pale stare from the shelter of a half-collapsed temple, thought of vultures wheeling above carrion. The Tree of Life To-day, they are carrion for the crows overhead, or they flee for safety like the cowards they were born. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn Here, as among other tropical regions, and even in some southern sections of this country, the lazy-looking bald-headed vulture is protected by law, being a sort of natural scavenger or remover of carrion. History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time The sun shines as sweetly on carrion as on the Koh-i-noor. The Night Side of London With wealth he was not trusted, for heaven knew What 'twas of old to pamper up a Jew; To what would he on quail and pheasant swell, That ev'n on tripe and carrion could rebel? Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 They come, as crows scenting carrion, from every side at the first blow of the axe. The Children of the Poor Wolves and carrion birds were tearing and rending the bodies of the unfortunate patriots. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 Grim and gory, with the eyes picked out by the carrion birds, the frightful object rolled. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley For the whole business was over in half a minute, after which several feathers were pulled out, and the carrion then flung away, as a scare and warning to all other hungry crows. Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa But the carrion ‘turns our stomach’ by what seems a direct operation—it does function physically, therefore, in that limited part of physics. Essays in Radical Empiricism "An' did they get that slinking she-devil of an Olga along with the rest of the carrion?" he asked. The Golden Amazons of Venus This brings Shakepeare's lines to mind: " 'Tis seldom when the bee doth leave her comb In the dead carrion." Notes and Queries, Number 228, March 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc We have lost more than enough time over this carrion. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley You will know the place by the swarms of carrion birds who scent their future prey there, and consequently never leave the rocks.' Tales from the German. Volume I. Arwed Gyllenstierna And jealousy does not often allow it to be admitted that the nightingale has a more charming voice than the carrion crow. Saga of Halfred the Sigskald A Northern Tale of the Tenth Century They are omnivorous feeders, killing and eating insects, snails, frogs and other animals, and devouring any carrion that comes in their way. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" Then in comes the butcher, That nimble-tongu'd youth, Who said she was carrion, But he spoke not the truth. The Nursery Rhymes of England After long weeks, with the ideal alone in mind, after countless blessed failures, was this the vile success—a beautiful, glorious, living creature tortured into a loathsome mass of carrion? The Trail of the Sandhill Stag Always the spring floods drifted down numbers of dead buffalo; and the carrion birds sat on the trees of the shore with their wings spread out to dry in the sun. The Story of the Trapper But it would not shrink from providing itself with carrion if a touch of one of its underground wires would suffice.—Might not The Guardian know the history of the green-covered order at first hand? The Case and Exceptions Stories of Counsel and Clients Blood has washed blood clean, and, in the final dust Your carrion will be purified. Songs of the Army of the Night And the prætor drew back as if I were pollution, and sternly said, "Let the carrion rot; there are no noble men but Romans." The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 Pigs, dogs, carrion!" she shrilled at them in Greek, and then to Mr. Spokesly she said, "The ship. Command It is his nose that brings him to all carrion just as surely as hawks come to pick dead bones. The Story of the Trapper The circles he made were so immensely wide and slow that he scarcely seemed to move in that high watch-tower of the air where he scanned the world for carrion. Dusty Star Well, later advices seem to indicate that both will upon occasion descend to carrion of the basest quality, and that both consume considerable time in their native haunts in catching and devouring bugs. Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 "I think that when the buzzards come there is apt to be carrion." The Portal of Dreams Not a scrap of carrion escapes the voracious appetites of either species of these birds. The Pearl of India Over the temple cawing flies The crow with carrion in his beak. Song-Surf The Silphidae, or carrion beetles, form one of the best-known families of this group. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" You never fail to see the common vulture where there is carrion. Wanderings in South America He stood still, whiffed the air hither and thither like a wolf that from afar scents carrion, and looked about in order to ascertain by the last glimmerings of the daylight where he was. The Infant's Skull Or The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium These youths, too, are worked for sixteen or even twenty hours a day; they are often sold by one master to another; they are fed on carrion, and they sleep in lofts or cellars. The Annals of Willenhall “What have you in the canoe that I should smell carrion?” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) There's a lot of carrion birds up there I never see in this town. The Price of the Prairie A Story of Kansas Now, the Indians have never heard of a personage in Demerara higher than that of governor; and the colonists, through a common mistake, call the vultures carrion crows. Wanderings in South America Hundreds of them were lying about in every stage of decay, those more recently dead being surrounded by vultures and other carrion birds. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The kind of carrion bird that took what others had worked for. Turnover Point When they were got on board the canoe the wife smelt carrion. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Then throw the carrion out, thou sloppy beast! A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day Hence the Indian, in order to express the dominion of this bird over the common vultures, tells you he is governor of the carrion crows. Wanderings in South America God made the sun to crown his head, And when death's dart at last is sped, At least it will not find him dead, And pass the carrion by. Poems A close communication took place between the duke and Preston, who, as Hacket describes, was “a good crow to smell carrion.” Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 As a matter of fact, her only feeling about this terrible resurrection was one of shrinking as from a veritable carrion, disinterred from a grave she had earned her right to forget. When Ghost Meets Ghost He is black and ill-favoured as a carrion crow. Legends & Romances of Brittany They feed entirely on the fruits of the forest, and though of the pie kind, never kill the young of other birds or touch carrion. Wanderings in South America The mighty vermin of the void That hid them from his bended bow, Shall crawl from caverns overjoyed, Jackal and snake and carrion crow. Poems The lion is a gentleman; he will not touch carrion. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) Geoffrey let himself slump, and hoped they would cut this carrion away from him as soon as possible. The Barbarians I am a carrion crow; but it is not my fault, after all, that the world is such a nauseous kennel.” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) On the edge of the nest I saw several small perch, a frog, and a meadow-mouse, all recently brought, though the place had a suspicious odor of carrion. Happy Days for Boys and Girls But the unkindest verses are the last—even the very dogs will refuse to touch Catharine's "carrion." History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 The cat steals fresh mutton just as the dog steals it, but, unlike the dog, she takes no delight in carrion. Eighth Reader He had lived so long almost entirely upon insects, grubs, scraps of carrion dropped by birds, and the like. Finn The Wolfhound "And any more of you carrion that I catch slacking will get the same thing," the Russian said. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The latter he gave up with ridicule for a compound of carrion and perverse gases. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) Those within the buildings knew that they would become carrion in the maws of the ravening wolves outside, and fought with a courage fed with desperation. Carmen Ariza Well, then, drag these carrion out to your pit. Hawk Carse Old Tasman was not just killed; he was dispersed, scattered, dissolved almost into the elements from which he sprang; he was translated within a few minutes into shapeless carrion. Finn The Wolfhound The raven “croaks for comfort” on finding carrion. Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century But the carrion crows of the death-chamber were not to be deterred by his well-known wishes. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) This foul carrion beast had fooled her that he might get her more utterly in his power. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court In the far East, like the vulture, the crow is considered a natural scavenger or remover of carrion, and the same excuse is made for him in Cuba and Florida. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Roar upon roar of enthusiasm echoed through the marble throne room, and Nelson would have felt wholly at ease had not that little knot of priests remained gathered like ill-omened carrion crows about the door. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 This to the chauffeur, now the centre of the carrion crowd that gathers about the body of any disabled motor. The Camera Fiend Yellow Rufe, if it be he, is not among ye, nor is he one of these carrion scattered on the ground. The Pirate Woman It is commonly met with in company with Caracaras, Turkey Buzzards and Black Vultures, feeding upon carrion. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. Such critics are but blowflies, their small skill To carrion given wholly. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 "One false move, and you are dead carrion," he said coldly. Slaves of Mercury If he sometimes carries away a fowl, it is exceptional; he prefers to live on carrion or bones, the remains of the feasts of man or of the true vulture. The Industries of Animals Chet thought again of the carrion birds; then he saw the gold star on the bow of a great cruiser and knew from that ship that the Commander must be seeing their own below. The Finding of Haldgren Besides grasshoppers and worms, they feed largely upon animal matter such as lizards, shell fish, frogs, eggs and young of birds, and carrion. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. “Not a sign of life but some carrion crows moving around in the blue without flop of a wing,” he grumbled. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine Offal and carrion were strewn all about the place; it swarmed with flies. When the West Was Young And in their wake came all that class of carrion which is ever seeking something for nothing. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills “Get up-stairs, you old carrion, and tell Nan Morgan, Henry de Spain is here to talk to her.” Nan of Music Mountain The sight and smell of carrion, so common in camping places during that first journey, also were gone. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail Not only were the people as yet unwilling to help, but Austria was watching with jealous eyes the possibility of plunder for herself;—for where the carrion is there will the vultures wheel. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck Now and then, a young rabbit is so overcome by fright, that the sly, watchful carrion crow obtains, with little trouble, an unexpected meal. Creatures of the Night A Book of Wild Life in Western Britain And as it grew the waiting carrion turned to view both distances of the trail. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills "Oh, sir, have mercy——" "Unless you do exactly what I say you will be lying there with that carrion," cried Morgan, kicking the prostrate body savagely with his jewelled shoes. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main As a buzzard scents carrion, other cowboys anticipated sport, and a group soon gathered. A Breath of Prairie and other stories I know Pillnitz is about as gay as a Trappist feast of carrion and ant's milk, but this princess doesn't want to be disciplined. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess Crab-like creatures scuttled in all directions, apparently feasting upon the plentiful carrion. The Terror from the Depths He too had rolled on to his back—he too was gazing up with unseeing eyes at the dark-hued carrion whose patience was inexhaustible. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills They stared at him with their lustful, carrion, jeweled eyes out of their loathsome, featherless, naked heads, drawing nearer—nearer—nearer. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main “Take that carrion and lock him up!” said De Launay, calmly. Louisiana Lou A Western Story And all she saw was that there was much carrion of ravens on Qasiagssaq’s rubbish heap. Eskimo Folk-Tales I don't care where he goes," said Correy savagely, "so he goes there as carrion. The Terror from the Depths This time it was by the harsh voice of a black carrion. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Toss them over the cliff," answered the Viceroy; "throw the bodies of all the carrion over, living or dead. Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main The hyena is called the vulture among beasts, as it prefers carrion for its food, and as long as it can find dead animals to devour, it leaves the flocks and herds in peace. Harper's Young People, May 11, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly And coming to the foot of one of them, he saw that which he so greatly wished to see; the carrion of a big cormorant, which had now become a skeleton. Eskimo Folk-Tales |
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