How rotten is too rotten for scavenging animals? Does it depend on the species?

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Animals like hyenas and vultures can eat meat that would kill or incapacitate a human, but is there any limit to that? At which point on the scale between “still kicking” and “liquid that is 50% various fungi” does the meat become inedible to a carrion eater, whether that is by giving it food poisoning or simply not having any accessible nutrients anymore?

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I work with dead people, often I have to collect deceased of more than a week…
If animals got to them, they don’t even eat 1/3 and the rest is left behind ( not counting when it’s a big number of animals like javali/pigs)

So, I believe that 3-4 days old is already too rotten (on 20°C or more)

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