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What is the relationship between a predator and a scavenger? Is the t-Rex a scavenger or a predator? What is the opposite of a scavenger? How is a scavenger different from a predator? Organized irrigation systems and surplus-based agriculture — examples of the first large-scale engineering of nature — were soon to follow. The costs of our predatory relationship with the environment continue to mount: climate degradation, rapidly depleting non-renewable resources, extinction of numerous other species, chemical poisoning of land, water and ourselves.
Our alienation from nature now threatens the ecological basis of our own existence as a species. Thus the predator eclipsed the scavenger, setting humankind on the fateful course of ecocide. Sale wants us to rethink our modern conceit about progress. Homo sapiens has been on the planet for nearly 70, years while our scavenger predecessors, Homo erectus , lasted 1. Given the current fruits of our progress one would be foolhardy indeed to think we could break their record.
So, Sale asks, who is the evolutionary success story? Sale hopes that there will be a revival of erectus sensibility and a more respectful way of living, in accord with a finite natural world. There are stirrings of at least a modest revival in the positive reputation of scavengers. The writer Carl Hiaasen has done his part by creating the character Skink, who appears in several of his best-selling detective series.
Skink used to be the environmentalist governor of Florida until he was forced out of office by developers set on turning the state into one big theme park. Skink retreated into the depths of the Everglades, where he carries on a humorous guerrilla campaign against all environmental despoilers while surviving on a diet of road kill. So modern scavenging covers a wide range of territory from dumpster diving to cruising second- hand and charity shops. But maybe there is a wider interpretation of scavenging.
The microcredit movement so beloved by development economics is frequently based on support for scavenger businesses. Find something, be it metal, wood, plastic, old electrical appliance, shell or stone. Reshape it. If no button appears, you cannot download or save the media. Text on this page is printable and can be used according to our Terms of Service. Any interactives on this page can only be played while you are visiting our website.
You cannot download interactives. A limiting factor is anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
Some examples of limiting factors are biotic, like food, mates, and competition with other organisms for resources. Others are abiotic, like space, temperature, altitude, and amount of sunlight available in an environment. Limiting factors are usually expressed as a lack of a particular resource. For example, if there are not enough prey animals in a forest to feed a large population of predators, then food becomes a limiting factor. Likewise, if there is not enough space in a pond for a large number of fish, then space becomes a limiting factor.
They also found some surprises. Albatrosses, for example, are built and behave much like vultures. Yet, they use their scavenging skills to pluck dead squid floating on the surface of the ocean, while vultures stick to land. One might think cheetahs -- given their similarities with hyenas and the vast amounts of carrion available on the savanna -- would be adept scavengers.
But cheetahs are built exclusively for brief bursts of speed; they don't cover vast distances very efficiently. They're also easily bullied off carrion by other cats. Researchers say their scale -- detailed in the journal Ecography -- can accommodate extinct species as well as Homo sapiens.
Researchers suggest early humans, prone to cooperation, likely used their tool-wielding skills to regularly put carrion on the dinner table.
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