scavenger

animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse
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scavenger

Summary

scavenger is a primary nutritional group[1]. scavenger draws 515 Wikipedia views per month (primary_nutritional_group category, ranking #1 of 9).[2]

Key Facts

  • scavenger's image is recorded as Eurasian Griffon Vulture on cattle carcass.jpg[3].
  • scavenger's image is recorded as Seagull scavenge trash bin 2.jpg[4].
  • scavenger's instance of is recorded as primary nutritional group[5].
  • scavenger's GND ID is recorded as 4256958-8[6].
  • scavenger's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85118052[7].
  • scavenger's subclass of is recorded as heterotroph[8].
  • scavenger's subclass of is recorded as Animalia[9].
  • scavenger's Commons category is recorded as Scavenging[10].
  • scavenger's said to be the same as is recorded as saprophage[11].
  • scavenger's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/02fvrb[12].
  • scavenger's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Scavengers[13].
  • scavenger's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300249918[14].
  • scavenger's main food source is recorded as dead organic matter[15].
  • scavenger's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[16].
  • scavenger's partially coincident with is recorded as detritivore[17].
  • scavenger's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/scavenger[18].
  • scavenger's has characteristic is recorded as trophic level[19].
  • scavenger's Quora topic ID is recorded as Scavengers-1[20].
  • scavenger's Quora topic ID is recorded as Scavenging[21].
  • scavenger's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as scavenging[22].
  • scavenger's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 56783068[23].
  • scavenger's Australian Educational Vocabulary ID is recorded as scot/1304[24].
  • scavenger's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007560596105171[25].
  • scavenger's KBpedia ID is recorded as Scavenger[26].
  • scavenger's WordNet 3.1 Synset ID is recorded as 01318913-n[27].

Why It Matters

scavenger draws 515 Wikipedia views per month (primary_nutritional_group category, ranking #1 of 9).[2] scavenger has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] scavenger is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . merriam-webster.com. merriam-webster.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . merriam-webster.com. merriam-webster.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . merriam-webster.com. merriam-webster.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . GF WordNet. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). scavenger. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/scavenger
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_scavenger_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{scavenger}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/scavenger}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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