
By eating dead organisms, they help to recycle the minerals in their bodies back into the ecosystem. Scavengers play an important role in desert ecosystems. Even sedentary animals are capable of traveling efficiently over long distances to increase their chances of detecting food. Vultures have also evolved into bald creatures, which helps them to stay clean while inserting their heads into dead animals. Vultures have a strong sense of smell, which is a rare trait among other bird species. For example, coyotes and foxes have a strong sense of smell, which helps them to locate carcasses. Scavengers often have adaptations that aid their scavenging habits. However, some scavengers, such as some insects, consume dead plants instead. Sometimes, scavengers subsist on food that carnivores killed. The primary difference between the two groups is that carnivores typically hunt and kill their prey, while scavengers eat dead or nearly dead prey. The dark color scheme, the eerie soundtrack, the coat full of animal guts, and that horrible screeching noise makes this PIF one of the scariest adverts in cinema history.Scavengers are a type of consumer, just as carnivores are. Scare Factor: Nightmare, bordering Off the Scale.

Music/Sounds: Flies are heard buzzing as the drum beating music are heard, the music turns somber, and by the time the woman looks at the fur coat, the music screeches super high, and the drum beats are heard playing in the background as the messages appear.Īvailability: Seen on many YouTube channels. The actors' identities are currently unknown. Scavengers consumed the carcasses faster on warm days possibly because the smell traveled. We then fade out, as a message appears reading, "When animals are killed for their fur, two kinds of scavengers move in." Another caption fades in below, reading, "The difference is, the flies don't know any better." The text fades out and the Lynx logo fades in, along with its slogan, "Fighting the fur trade", and its address.įX/SFX: Live action. The most common scavengers overall were ravens ( Corvus corax ), Canada jays ( Perisoreus canadensis) and magpies ( Pica hudsonia ), but goshawks ( Accipiter gentilis) and bald eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus) were also captured in the photos. Everyone, including the woman, gather around in shock and disgust. What appears to be a heart falls out and splatters on the floor. The woman moves part of the fur coat to reveal several bloody tattered parts of an animal body that was nibbled on by the flies and maggots. Choose from a roster of adaptive Explorers, arm yourself with a combination of unique abilities and weapons, and conquer the challenges of a hostile. Enter a free-to-play action shooter where squads of three compete to survive and dominate in a hybrid of sandbox-style PVE and class-based PVP. We then fade out, as a message appears reading, 'When animals are killed for their fur, two kinds of scavengers move in.' Another caption fades in below, reading, 'The difference is, the flies don't know any better. Scavengers is your strategic survival battleground.

Shots cross-cut as the flies nibble on parts of what seems to be a rib-cage, and the woman and the store manager walk to the fur coat. What appears to be a heart falls out and splatters on the floor. Then the woman spots a fur coat that she didn't know that the flies are targeted at. As the woman tries on another fur coat, flies begin landing inside the coat and what we see looks inside like a blood vessel. More flies fly through the air-vents and into the same coat. As the woman tries on some fur coats, nobody is aware that the flies are inside one of the fur coats. We now cut to the air-vents where flies are flying around, they fly around the shop as the woman tries on different fur coats, the fly spots a fur coat. Then, we see a limo has pulled up outside a fashion shop, then a butler opens up the door, a rich woman enters the shop, the butler swats away the fly that was around his forehead. WARNING: Videos of this PIF will not be posted on this site, due to extremely graphic content.ĭescription: We see from a fly's POV as it flies around city buildings, with shots cross-fading to one another. A highly disturbing and disgusting cinema PIF from Respect for Animals, called Lynx at the time, made around 1987 in the United Kingdom.
