Scavengers

... (or any other gene that regulates the fight or flight response), and the ones that make us worry constantly - (neurobiological ones). Free radical scavengers are still the best bet to have to live longer, and boost up the cytochromes in the liver to detox ourselves of all the xenobiotics we put ...

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... of a pyramid when you consider biomass (or energy): it requires a lot of rabbits to sustain a single fox. This rule is also valid for detritivores/scavengers. The energy contained in the body of a dead hyenna is vastly insufficient to allow another hyenna that would feed from it to grow to the ...

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the difference is that the scavengers eats those which was left by other animals or which may have died from illness or old age they use their canines to tear the flesh but the decomposers are mostly microorganism that doesnt have canines ...

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Decomposers known too as detritus feeders, bacteria and fungi... I think the size is a factor... Scavengers could be bigger animals in sense... like vultures, hyenas...

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... where you are going with that. Every organism is a consumer. We, loosely, envision predators as being carnivores. But many carnivores are solely scavengers. And, I suppose, in the broadest sense, garden snails are predators of our lettuces.

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