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Here, the carrion in question was the Cuban American artist Jorge Pardo, who’d designed and built the house as a commission for Los Angeles MoCA.
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
This is because when the corpse flower blooms, its temperature raises to help create the potent scent, attracting the plant’s pollinators (which are unsurprisingly bugs like flies or carrion beetles).
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2024
But still, those are animals that eat carrion and meat and anything else.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
After all, their diet consists in part of carrion, as opossums scavenge among carcasses as well as hunting other small mammals.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2024
This is because when the corpse flower blooms, its temperature raises to help create the potent scent, attracting the plant’s pollinators (which are unsurprisingly bugs like flies or carrion beetles).
—Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 July 2024
But still, those are animals that eat carrion and meat and anything else.
—Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 23 May 2024
After all, their diet consists in part of carrion, as opossums scavenge among carcasses as well as hunting other small mammals.
—Katie Liu, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
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“Carrion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/carrion. Accessed 31 Dec. 2024.
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