Word: carrion
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Sheep (probably carrion...
Bumping along a shell-strewn road near Tsitsihar two days after the battle, Correspondent Frederick Kuh of United Press reported freezing corpses gnawed by carrion, piteous wounded, and short, fat, half-bald Japanese General Jiro Tamon who "punctuated his description of the Japanese victory with derogatory references to the League of Nations...
Bald eagles feed chiefly on carrion. Occasionally they snatch up water fowl, rabbits, fawns or lambs, or make the smarer, smaller osprey their catspaw for a fish diet. There is no authenticated case-even in Spring, when hungry eaglets are yammering in the eyries-of a bald eagle attacking the young of the animal who has made him National Bird...
...Carrion-feeding condors, sailing at extraordinary heights above the coast ranges of California, were once a common sight. They have been exterminated partly because of their proclivity for occasionally preying upon livestock, but mostly in the course of man's attempt to rid himself of wolves and foxes. These animals have learned to avoid poisoned meat, but the condors, eaters of carrion, swoop and gobble...
...broken forth and moral prelates and amoral Republicans are piling advice on vice. The Tammany Tiger is trying to purr like a pussy cat but it seems to have an impolitic foog in its throat which gives it the sound of an angry beast caught at another's carrion. And from what one hears the stench will last long after the scandalous corpse has been cleared from the city streets...