• hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    They are not carnivorous because they are not using the dust as a source of nutrition/energy. Besides, an animal that eats dead skin (like dust mite perhaps?) would rather be classified as a debrivore, and most meat-eating animals (or at least the ones that eat mammals), from wolves to pigs to crows to various invertebrate debrivorea, would happily eat a dead human or at least a part of them if provided with one, but are yet to start actively hunting us, save for some very rare exceptions.