0 a bird or an animal that feeds on dead animals that it has not killed itself: --
1 an animal, bird, or person who scavenges --
From the 1890s municipalities increasingly took over direct management of solid waste disposal, a task previously contracted out to private scavengers.
Ruminants can utilize low quality forages while swine and poultry are good grain scavengers.
Finally, photocatalytic oxidation of the desired species may be inhibited by the presence of catalyst fouling agents and radical scavengers.
Despite the significant contribution to waste recovery and recycling, the role of scavengers in solid waste management is still not properly acknowledged.
They are known free radical scavengers and metal chelators.
The raven is known as acting as a scavenger, competing with and often outwitting the dogs and even the hunters.
When they became full, municipal or private scavengers cleaned them, usually at the owner's expense.
Other investigators have extrapolated changes that occur in endogenous radical scavengers as a measure of radical production.