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scavenger

noun as in forager

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noun as in collector

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As scavengers, vultures always look for the next carcass.

“I’m kind of a scavenger,” U.K.-based designer Ellen Poppy Hill says of her approach to secondhand fabric sourcing.

Think of it as a scavenger hunt for a person on the move with light, escape room-inspired puzzles.

Marini whips out some junior ranger books that depict local wildlife and feature a scavenger hunt that can be completed to earn a badge.

Yet that same stomach-churning tendency also causes vultures to be indispensable to human ecosystems, since the rotting carcasses contain dangerous diseases that could spread to humans if not ingested by more iron-stomached scavengers.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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