Camera trap image of heath goanna scavenging a rat carcass. (IMAGE)
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Reptiles like the heath goanna are the largest remaining native land scavengers in much of Australia today. Native Australian scavengers were seen to eat more of the dead rats, and with them the flesh-eating maggots, than scavengers introduced from Europe.
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Tom Jameson
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