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(a) Raccoons (Procyon lotor), (b) a red fox (Vulpes vulpes), (c) and a coyote (Canis latrans) scavenging in vertebrate mortality pits and (d) a cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus sp.) foraging immediately adjacent to a mortality pit. These feeding events could result in pathogen transmission under certain conditions [94].
