Yes, that’s true. Dead animals no longer have any circulation maintaining tissue material like muscles and organs and pathogens may increase without internal regulation and would consequently be very toxic. Typically the meat gets rancid if not refrigerated right after death.

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Carrion is the dead, decaying flesh of an animal that often serves as a food source for other carnivorous or omnivorous animals and birds. To be classified as carrion, the animal cannot have been killed by the same animal consuming it but must have died from another cause.

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DEFINING WHITETAIL PREDATORS In general, deer predators are fox-sized, or larger, mam- mals and sometimes even the American Alligator. Foxes rarely prey on deer but sometimes kill fawns when larger dog-related predators (wolves and coyotes) are missing.

Deer have many predators, or natural enemies. Animals that like to kill and eat deer include wild canids—or “dog-like” animals—such as wolves and coyotes. Big cats such as cougars, jaguars and lynx also hunt deer.

Crows can find ticks on the animals they prey. Crows are famous for eating ticks attached to bigger animals like deers and rhinos. True enough, they would likely ignore ticks if they find a dead deer or rhino, or any other dead animal.

Deer have often been spotted feeding on larger carrion—sometimes even on the guts of other dead deer. Deer belong to a group of animals called ruminants, which have a special organ called a rumen for digesting tough plants. Cows are probably the best-known ruminants (and have been witnessed eating birds).

In a 1986 study in Panama, Turkey Vultures found 71 of 74 chicken carcasses within three days. There was no time difference between finding concealed and unconcealed carcasses, and the only carcasses the vultures seemingly had trouble finding were the freshest ones.

The meat goes bad within 48 hours after its dead or slaughtered as it starts to form bacteria.

These birds are powerful fliers and soar on thermals (columns of rising air) while they look for food, but they cannot sense when an animal is dying. When they locate a carcass by smell, sight, or the sound of other birds feeding, they approach it quickly before other predators find it.

Spiritual Messengers Symbolic signs appear in many forms, but the red cardinal has long been embraced as the most notable spiritual messenger who has been sent by our loved ones in Heaven to watch over us. To this day, red cardinals are one of the most common spiritual signs that people receive from Heaven.