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English term or phrase:	scavengers
Portuguese translation:	necrófagos/detritívoros
Entered by:	Maria Meneses

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16:10 May 8, 2009

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English term or phrase: scavengers

"Baboons are sociable animals, living in colonies of up to 50 individuals, but they’re also scavengers, and that has brought them into conflict with the human population."

É fácil encontrar a tradução de scavenger como "carniceiro", mas de acordo com o Houaiss esse vocábulo parace ter uma outra acepção. Será que seria melhor "necrófago" ou até mesmo carnívoro? Obrigada pelo auxílio.

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necrófagos/detritívoros

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Animais que se alimentam de restos orgânicos

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necrófagos/detritívoros

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necrófagos / comedores de carniça

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necrófagos/detritívoros

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Asker: Me parece correto , mas nao encontrei nada a respeito de macacos ou babuinos como necrófagos. Há muitas referencias sobre urubus, hienas, basctéris e fungos. Será que podemos usar esse termos para babuinos?

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necrófagos / comedores de carniça

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"Scavenger
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For a person who scavenges, see Waste picker. For other uses, see Scavenger (disambiguation).
Scavenging, or necrophagy, is a carnivorous feeding behaviour in which a predator consumes corpses or carrion that were not killed to be eaten by the predator or others of its species. Scavengers play an important role in the ecosystem by contributing to the decomposition of dead animal remains. Decomposers complete this process, by consuming the remains left by scavengers.

Well known scavengers include vultures, burying beetles, blowflies, yellowjackets, and raccoons. Many large carnivores that hunt regularly, such as hyenas and lions, will scavenge if given the chance or use their size and ferocity to intimidate the original hunters.

Animals which consume feces, such as dung beetles, are referred to as coprovores. Animals which primarily consume dead plants are referred to as detritivores. The eating of carrion from the same species is referred to as cannibalism."

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scavengers
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Main Entry: scav·en·ger
Pronunciation: \ˈska-vən-jər\
Function: noun
Etymology: alteration of earlier scavager, from Anglo-French scawageour collector of scavage (duty collected from non-resident street merchants), from skawage scavage, from Middle French dialect (Flanders) escauver to inspect, from Middle Dutch scouwen; akin to Old English scēawian to look at — more at show
Date: 1530
1chiefly British : a person employed to remove dirt and refuse from streets
2: one that scavenges: as a: a garbage collector b: a junk collector c: a chemically active substance acting to make innocuous or remove an undesirable substance
3: an organism that typically feeds on refuse or carrion

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Concordo com a colega, mas quando postei minha resposta, a dela ainda não estava na tela.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scavenger
Reference: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scavengers

Drykka
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