Succession, n. a process where waste from one stage of decomposition becomes food for the next.
Via Boing Boing: Video of decomposing piglets:
Succession is the idea that as each organism or group of organisms feeds on a body, it changes the body. This change in turn makes the body attractive to another group of organisms, which changes the body for the next group, and so on until the body has been reduced to a skeleton.
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