Scavengers by Jennifer
The role of scavengers are that they eat the dead organisms. There diet consists of carrion which is the dead rotting corpse. Some scavengers are the King vulture, and the cockroach. They are important to the food web because they eat all the dead organisms that would just lay around and hurt the soil.

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Name: The King Vulture.
Description: The vulture can be 32 inches in length, and a wing span of up to 4 feet. They are larger and more powerful then ordinary vultuers.
Habitat: It lives in the dense trees in a tropical cilmate.
Diet: The vulture eats Carrion (decaying flesh of a dead body.)
Name: The cockroach
Description: The cockroach is about 1 and 3/8 to 2 and 1/8 long and about 5 inches wide. they are reddish brown and they have wings.
Habitat: They can live anywear aslong as the teperature is above 15 degreese fahenheit, but they perfer teperatures around 84 degreese fahrenheit.
Diet: cockraochs eat anything they like bark, leaves, paper, wool clothes, sugar, cheese, bread, oil, lemons, ink, soap, flesh, fish, leather, other roachs (dead or alive), or their own cast off skins or egg capsules.

picture from AN AMAZON ADVENTURE--ANIMALS--COCKROACHES
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