Animals That Eat Dead Animals. The animal most commonly associated with playing dead is the opossum. When under a threat, opossums can go into shock.
Those presents may include small animals like mice, rats, or squirrels killed by your proudly providing hunter, or pieces of other animal carcasses found outdoors. Their instinct to bring animals back to a safer place to eat also means that sometimes the animals they bring back aren’t fully dead. The possum menu consists of dead animals, insects, rodents and birds.
A found animal will have not only the blood but all the organs saturating the system for however long its been dead till its found which in itself is potentially deadly to eat.
This means they are able to eat remains of dead animals. Here's some more pictures of snakes eating animals. Grizzlies are known to kill their own food, including deer, but will also scavenge the carcasses of dead animals. Some dogs are more prone to hunting small critters, and other breeds are more prone to retrieving dead things for you.