vultures are birds that eat dead animals.Do you suppose they are consumers or decomposers?Explain your reasoni

Question

vultures are birds that eat dead animals.do you suppose they are consumersor decomposers?explain your reasoning?

Answer 1

They are consumers. Decomposers breakdown materials and release the elements back into the environment.

Answer 2

Sounds like a homework question aiming to get you to think. A lion eating a cow it has just killed, or a vulture eating the remnants the next day, or you eating a steak, are all consuming the cow. All then digest the food to absorb its nutrients. You could call that decomposition if you want to. That term is more often used for the bacterial action that takes place on whatever you, the lion, and the vultures don't eat.

Answer 3

Its the first time I have heard Vultures being called something other than "Scavengers". They cannot be decomposers as they dont fit the dictionary meaning of the word Decompose, which is "breaking up into smaller constituents."