Pardis Sabeti

You get these moments of thrill. There you are, at 3:00 in the morning, and you know something about how we evolved that nobody else in the world knows. It's a thrill of discovery. You make this breakthrough, and you find something. It's this wonderful, wonderful scavenger hunt when you got to the end. It's just so great to be a scientist.

Iranian Scientist

Michael Rooker

We had a thing there where you could turn in - it was some sort of recycling program - the bottle caps of RC Cola. You'd turn in 12 of them, and you'd get a ticket to see a movie. That's how I started going to the movies. Running around the neighborhood looking for bottle caps. We were like little scavengers.

American Actor

Patti Smith

Some of us are born rebellious. Like Jean Genet or Arthur Rimbaud, I roam these mean streets like a villain, a vagabond, an outcast, scavenging for the scraps that may perchance plummet off humanity's dirty plates, though often sometimes taking a cab to a restaurant is more convenient.

American Musician

Edith Widder

I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

American Scientist

Waldemar Januszczak

The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.

British Critic

Liane Moriarty

I love hearing other people's stories, and I freely admit I'm scavenging for material through their conversations, but really, at the same time, I'm living an ordinary life.

Australian Author

Jimmy Buffett

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.

American Singer

Carl Sandburg

The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no respect.

American Poet

Simon McBurney

In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights.

English Actor

Bryce Dessner

I like to think of myself as a musical scavenger.

American Composer

Scavengers play a vital role in the ecosystem by consuming decomposing organisms.

Nature's Cleaners

Though often carnivorous, some scavengers can also feed on plant material.

Not Always Carnivores

Human scavengers save and repurpose items, reducing waste.

Resourceful Collecting

While it can sound negative, scavenger describes a practical and environmentally beneficial activity.

Not Derogatory

In chemistry, 'scavenger' is technical jargon and should be used in relevant discussions.

Specialized Vocabulary

Chemical scavengers protect by capturing harmful molecules.

Protective Substance

Scavengers are resourceful, seeking usable materials others have overlooked.

Thrifty Hunters

Urban scavengers explore cities for discarded, yet useful items.

Urban Exploration

 unlike their rural counterparts, These foxes have actually started to change. Their noses are getting a bit shorter to adapt to their more urban lifestyles of scavenging. And that's not all. Their skulls are actually changing shape in a way that could mean their brains are getting smaller.

Discovering Wildlife in...

 they protected bodies from scavengers and the elements, while shielding loved ones from the sight of decay. These benefits may have shifted ancient people’s thinking toward graves designed to honor the dead, and burial became more common.

The fascinating history...

 Alfa couple will actively discourage last year's offspring from mating but one of their daughters has other ideas skulking behind the pack is a lone male wolf he has no territory of his own but follows the family scavenging leftovers

BBC Earth 50 Top Natural...

 scavenger hunts to see how the species have changed you fast forward in time to see the future and come back and we use a technique called body transfer developed by neuroscientist where you literally become an animal on the reef

Can VR help create...

 What might those early people have been thinking as they took the time to dig into the earth, deposit the body and carefully cover it up again? Were they trying to protect it from scavengers or stymie the spread of disease?

What crows teach us...

 now survived by scavenging from fishermen the kittens are brought up in the perfect playground but they're busy mums have to juggle childcare with the important job of getting a mule and their chance comes just once a day

10 Day Old Kitten Falls...

 discourage last year's offspring from mating but one of their daughters has other ideas skulking behind the pack is a lone male wolf he has no territory of his own but follows the family scavenging leftovers

Most Unusual Mating...

 Ecosystem they filter out sick and weak animals and herds and help scavengers survive by providing leftovers from their hunts this coyote however is not only a scavenger but also

Wolf Hunting Tactics PIPE...

 sharks hagfish and a whole succession of different deep sea scavengers will feast on the carcass for years before all its nutriment has gone

The Blue Planet...

 other scavengers is very very important for the whole ecosystem that the pumas are here and the population here is healthy