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In The Island of Doctor Moreau, the nastiest of the Beast Folk was created from a hyena and a pig, both animals that will scavenge.However, when a human that they abduct for information castigates them and compares them to carrion-eaters, they become horrified at the idea of what they're about to do and leave Earth to its own devices. Then they'll come to "rescue" the survivors. Isaac Asimov's " The Gentle Vultures": The aliens consider unbalancing the Cold War so that one side is ready to devastate the world through nuclear weapons.Subverted by Loiosh, an actual jhereg who can be quite courageous when acting on behalf of Vlad, who raised Loiosh as his companion and familiar. In Steven Brust's Dragaera, House Jhereg is named for a species of scavenging venomous reptile, and is the House associated with criminals.At the end of Hogfather, the Death of Rats locates a dead sheep for Quoth to scavenge, and it's portrayed as a touching Hogswatch gesture on the Grim Squeaker's part. Although completely open and unashamed about his love of scavenging (eyeballs especially), he's quite helpful and sympathetic, at least when he's not being a Deadpan Snarker. Subverted in Discworld with Quoth, the Death of Rats's raven associate.This doesn't mean all scavengers are noble, however. Scavengers, vultures in particular, are considered borderline sacred. Unlike in previous Erin Hunter books, scavenging is noted to be a natural and even vital part of life for animals. The cats refuse to scavenge no matter how hungry they are. "Crowfood" is the term that characters in Warrior Cats use to refer to rotting food.Lusa is seen as less of a bear for trying to eat flatface food (garbage) in Seeker Bears.Alpha, a wolf-dog raised amongst wolves, outright refuses to.
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In Survivor Dogs, very few of the dogs are okay with scavenging off of longpaw trash or eating dog food after becoming Free Dogs.Erin Hunter works usually present scavenging as demeaning, especially if the animals scavenge from humans (though many of the animals are actually scavengers in real life):.No relation to Disaster Scavengers, which are the (mostly human) scavengers in the post-apocalyptic worlds. Compare Predation Is Natural, which often goes hand-in-hand with this trope: hunting is part of nature, but scavenging is less so. Related to You Dirty Rat!, Creepy Cockroach, Messy Maggots, and (if humanoid carrion-eaters are included) Our Ghouls Are Creepier. Often related to Super-Persistent Predator and What Measure Is a Non-Cute?. Sister trope to Predators Are Mean, which one would think would result in scavengers being depicted as nicer, since they at least don't need to kill for food. This has a level of Truth in Television to it, as scavengers in real-life generally stay out of conflicts between larger, stronger meat-eaters (but are not Mooks in real-life, obviously). Oddly enough, they won't always be depicted as actually scavenging, instead conspiring to eat the still-living protagonists, which kind of defeats the purpose of them being called scavengers to begin with.ÄȘ Post-Apocalyptic Dog may also end up as this.ÄŹuriously, scavengers are rarely depicted as the Big Bad of a story more commonly, they're depicted as Mooks or secondary antagonists-you're more likely to see them as Big Bads if no other carnivores are filling the role. They will often be depicted as Villainous Gluttons and Dirty Cowards, due to their preference for easy meals that are either lying dead on the ground or too weak to fight back, as well as their habit of mooching off of the hard-working predators who, in our eyes, truly "earn" their own sustenance. Usually applied to creatures like hyenas, corvids, jackals, and vultures, probably due to Small Taxonomy Pools. Or, in other words, a scavenger.ÄȘ very specific form of Carnivore Confusion, this trope presents scavengers as ugly, dirty, greedy, and all around unpleasant creatures who would gleefuly feast on equally rotten meals that nobody in their right mind would touch. Simple: make the villain a "lesser" carnivore. But what happens when a carnivore is a hero? In fiction (especially xenofiction), a carnivorous animal is very commonly the villain facing off against a bunch of heroic herbivores.















