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[[File:WedgetailEagleCarrion.jpg|thumb|A [[wedge-tailed eagle]] and carrion ([[roadkill]] [[kangaroo]]) in the [[Pilbara]] region of [[Western Australia]]]]▼
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▲[[File:WedgetailEagleCarrion.jpg|thumb|A [[wedge-tailed eagle]] and carrion ([[roadkill]] kangaroo) in the Pilbara region of Western Australia]]
▲'''Carrion''' (from [[Latin]] ''caro'', meaning "meat") is the decaying flesh of dead animals.
==Overview==
Carrion is an important food source for large [[carnivore]]s and [[omnivore]]s in most ecosystems. Examples of carrion-eaters (or [[scavenger]]s) include [[crow]]s, [[vulture]]s, [[condor]]s, [[hawk]]s, [[eagle]]s,<ref>Hovenden, Frank. [http://www.comoxvalleynaturalist.bc.ca/wild_side/2003/vulture.html The Carrion Eaters] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601062448/http://www.comoxvalleynaturalist.bc.ca/wild_side/2003/vulture.html |date=1 June 2010 }}. Comox Valley Naturalists Society. 7 May 2010.</ref> [[hyena]]s,<ref>[http://
[[File:Fish-Food-in-the-Deep-Sea-Revisiting-the-Role-of-Large-Food-Falls-pone.0096016.s005.ogv|thumb|[[Zoarcidae|Zoarcid fish]] feeding on the carrion of a [[Mobula|mobulid ray]].]]
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Some plants and [[fungus|fungi]] smell like [[Decomposition|decomposing]] carrion and attract insects that aid in reproduction. Plants that exhibit this behavior are known as [[carrion flower]]s. [[Phallaceae|Stinkhorn mushroom]]s are examples of fungi with this characteristic.
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Sometimes carrion is used to describe an infected carcass that is diseased and should not be touched. An example of carrion being used to describe dead and rotting bodies in literature may be found in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'' (III.i):<ref>[http://shakespeare.mit.edu/julius_caesar/julius_caesar.3.1.html The Life and Death of Julius Caesar]. SCENE I. Rome. Before the Capitol; the Senate sitting above.</ref>
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Another example can be found in Daniel Defoe's ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' when the title character kills an unknown bird for food but finds "its flesh was carrion, and fit for nothing".
==Consumption by humans==
===In Noahide law===
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The thirty-count laws of [[Ulla (Talmudist)]] include the prohibition of humans consuming carrion.<ref>Talmud, Hullin 92b</ref> This count is in addition to the standard seven law count and has been recently{{when|date=September 2018}} published from the Judeo-Arabic writing of [[Shmuel ben Hophni Gaon]] after having been lost for centuries.<ref>[[Mossad HaRav Kook]] edition of Gaon's commentary to Genesis.</ref>
=== In Islam ===
Animals killed by strangling, a violent blow, a headlong fall, being gored to death, or from which a predatory animal has partially eaten are essentially types of carrion, and are forbidden in Islam.<ref>{{Cite book |title=The halal food handbook |date=2019 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Inc |isbn=978-1-118-82311-8 |editor-last=Al-Teinaz |editor-first=Yunes Ramadan |location=Hoboken, NJ |editor-last2=Spear |editor-first2=Stuart |editor-last3=Abd El-Rahim |editor-first3=Ibrahim H. A.}}</ref>
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