They are killers and scavengers.

它们既是杀手也是食腐动物。

For Scavengers, there's no shortage of food.

对食腐动物来说食物并不缺乏。

Before decay sets in or, even more likely, before scavengers eat them.

在开始腐烂前，或更可能在被食腐动物吃掉之前，被这样保存下来。

There are hunters, and filter feeders, scavengers, and plants giving food and shelter.

里面有捕食者、滤食性生物、食腐动物以及提供食物和庇护的植物。

Over the next few hours there'll be frenzied competition between scavengers of all kinds to grab a share.

在接下来的几个小时里，这些食腐动物会尽情分享这份大餐。

The necropsy complete, the remains of the whale are left for scavengers. And Joy, and the team, head home.

尸检完成后，鲸鱼的尸体被留给食腐动物，乔伊和他的团队则前往了回家的路。

A small fraction of the creatures that die are preserved in this way before decay sets in or, even more likely, before scavengers eat them.

烂前，或者更可能的情况是，在食腐动物吃掉它们之前如此地保存起来。

My classmates had been transformed for a moment from a vaguely indifferent, vaguely hostile pack of scavengers and carnivores into real people.

我的同学们曾一度从一群淡漠、充满敌意的食腐动物变成了活生生的人。

Its body and its skin began to rot and fall off and eventually the bones are torn apart by scavengers and maybe taken some place else and eaten.

它的身体和皮肤开始腐烂并脱落最终骨头也会被食腐动物撕开还有可能被带到别处吃掉。

They are the key scavengers in this lake.

它们是湖里不可或缺的“清洁工”