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Pedro Crespo Refoyo

hecrofago
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It is a graphic error with two serious faults. Hecrophagus does not exist. Necrophagus must be read with N- initial and tilde, for being proparoxytone or esdrújula the word . Noun , m . Sing. . - Say who practices Necrophagy, that is, the act of eating corpses or dead animals. It is a cultured and Hellenistic term. From the Greek Nekros, "dead body" and phagos, "to eat". In addition to man, to a lesser extent, they practice necrophagy or are necrophages winged animals such as vultures, par excellence, and mammals such as hyenas, which take the palm, coyotes, raccoons, fearsome crocodiles, alligators or freshwater turtles, among reptiles. And felines, such as lions or tigers, among others. Also, in another animal order, beetles, wasps, flies and some beetles.

  




John Rene Plaut

HECROPHAGUS error by NECROPHAGUS, meat eater of dead people.

  



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