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What does necrophagous mean?

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Adjective
  1. That eats dead or decaying animal flesh.
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Also, feeding programmes of wild species such as necrophagous birds should not become an alternative way of disposal of fallen ruminant stock posing a TSE risk nor of specified risk material.
The necrophagous raven rids the environment of animal carcasses.
Most flesh flies breed in dung and decaying materials, other certain species are necrophagous which they colonized in carrions.
I also think that we have complied with the wishes of many Members in allowing the appropriate feeding of necrophagous birds in certain regions.
Many species of family Piophilidae considered as necrophagous species breeding primarily during advanced stage of decomposition.
Actually, the rate of development in necrophagous insects is the response of organisms to their thermal environment.

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