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Organisms that eat dead or decaying matter are called

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Organisms that eat dead or decaying matter are called scavengers.
Some scavengers include coyotes, raccoons, leopards, and piranhas.

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decomposer- an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
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