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First, because the pigs eat the organic waste, they are a vital component in their recycling system, the pig cull literally destroyed the Zabbaleen recycling system. Deprived of their pig herds, the Zabbaleen stopped collecting such organic trash, leaving food piles to rot in the streets, leading to the increase of trash in the streets. [ 52 ]
Bordalo's international project Big Trash Animals is a series of installations featuring huge images of animals created from rubbish. The project spanned many European cities, including Lisbon, Barcelona, Dresden, Hamburg, and Tallinn, with the first of these in Łódź in Poland, in August–September 2015. [3]
Lumbricus terrestris is a large, reddish worm species thought to be native to Western Europe, now widely distributed around the world (along with several other lumbricids).
The Garbage Goat is a metal sculpture in Spokane, Washington's Riverfront Park. It was created by Paula Mary Turnbull, a local artist known as the "welding nun", for Expo '74, the city's 1974 world's fair. The sculpture was designed with an internal vacuum mechanism allowing the goat to "eat" trash held close to its mouth.
Scavengers are not typically thought to be detritivores, as they generally eat large quantities of organic matter, but both detritivores and scavengers are the same type of cases of consumer-resource systems. [6] The consumption of wood, whether alive or dead, is known as xylophagy.
Many invertebrates, such as the carrion and burying beetles, [6] as well as maggots of calliphorid flies (such as one of the most important species in Calliphora vomitoria) and flesh-flies, also eat carrion, playing an important role in recycling nitrogen and carbon in animal remains. [7] Zoarcid fish feeding on the carrion of a mobulid ray.
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In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. ... Carnivorous animals (2 C, 1 P) Coprophagous animals (3 C, ... Pages in category "Animals by eating behaviors"