'''Scavengers''' are hound-like burrowing creatures who fight with ferocity and are quick to attack. A Scavenger is an [[animal]] type [[monster]].
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Scavengers are small, burrowing creatures that feed upon carrion. Unlike most animals of this type, however, they are extremely aggressive and will not hesitate to attack those unfortunate enough to encounter them. Scavengers have powerful legs which they use for swift springing attacks, striking at vulnerable faces and throats. Their anatomy bears a striking resemblance to that of the {{iw|Leaper leapers}} of the [[Aranoch]] desert, and thus, many researchers classify the two groups as part of the same family of creatures.
An ensorcelled (some say [[demon]]ic) variant is known These creatures often burrow in an open area and wait for a pray to have plagued adventurers in pass within short distance, then the entire pack will burst out of the [[Tristram]] region twenty-odd years ago as well. These were also called {{iw|Scavenger Scavengers}}soil and attack their potential meal.
Captured Scavengers are used to hunt for [[Dune Thresher]]s. Constrained with a rope, they are used as bait in groups of 3 or so. They will traditionally try to bury, and then be captured by the Thresher, who in turn will swallow them, but still be attached to the ropes around the Scavengers' necks. The little creatures' ferocious clawing will open up the inside of the Thresher's stomach before the extremely eroding acids of the creature kills the Scavengers. Still attached to the ropes, the hunter will pull the dead or mortally wounded Dune Thresher out of the sand.
An ensorcelled (some say [[demon]]ic) variant is known to have plagued adventurers in the [[Tristram]] region twenty-odd years ago as well. These were also called {{iw|Scavenger Scavengers}}.
==Diablo I Monster==
The {{iw|Scavenger Diablo I Scavenger}} is a [[demon]]ic version of the regular one described here. Corrupted by [[Diablo]] himself, this variant of the carrion race is even more aggressive, and can be driven mad with the scent of death.
"Yep. Burrowers ==Diablo II Monster==The {{iw|Leaper Diablo II Leapers}} found in the [[Aranoch]] desert are apparently genetically related to catch a burrowerthe Scavengers," he said. He then took the lengths but not of rope hanging from the cage exact same race. They have evolved even stronger bone muscles for leap attacks, don't burrow and impaled them on have evolved an extremely slow resting metabolism to minimize water use and storage, but are otherwise quite like the ground using a heavy pikeburrowers. He also attached what looked like long knives to the sides of his heavyThey still attack in packs, scarred boots, and drove the blades into the groundbut use leaping attacks rather than an surprise attack from below.
"You'd better get out of the way." And with that, while holding onto the ropes, he undid the latching mechanism on the side of the cage. He then threw it out onto the sand. The cage exploded outward with the scavengers' frantic attempts to escape their confines. I barely had time to wonder how Burroughs had been able to get the collars (that the ropes were attached to) around the scavengers' necks before the vicious beasts had burrowed into the soft ground.
==Development==
This iteration of Scavengers was first sighted in the [[WWI 2008]] [[gameplay movie]]
I was extremely tense by this point. I felt naked and exposed. What insanity had convinced me that coming out here was a good idea?
I looked out over the wastes in the fading light, trying to detect the telltale horned fins of the thresher cutting through the surface of the sand.
With absolutely no warning, the dune thresher violently broke the surface, all three scavengers caught in his horrifying maw. There was a massive explosion of sand as the thresher dove back into the ground with its prize. The ropes immediately snapped taut, and I thought Burroughs would be pulled to his death. I didn't understand how he thought he could reel in a monster that huge, but he wasn't even trying – just holding on.
After several tense seconds that stretched towards eternity, the rope began making weird jerking motions.
"Ah. The little buggers are doing their work." He smiled a ghastly smile. "Shouldn't be long now."
A few more moments of this strangeness passed, and the thrashing of the ropes became less and less. Finally, he began to haul his catch in. When it was partially on the rocks, I could see what had happened. The thresher had swallowed the scavengers whole, and they, in turn, had begun eating their way out of the thresher's stomach before the beast's digestive juices had killed them. One scavenger still clung to life, but barely. It had actually dug itself halfway out of the thresher, clawing at the air as its skin was slowly eaten away. I vomited.
Burroughs, laughing at me once again as he cut off the beast's triangular head, began lecturing me on the amazing dune thresher: the dynamics of its jutting, angular lower jaw, which cuts a path through the soil; the way this jaw design enables the thresher to swim effortlessly beneath the sand with unimaginable swiftness; and much more that I didn't care to hear just then. I nodded my head weakly and wondered how long it would be before I could politely get myself home and crawl into bed.
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==References==
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[[Image:Mon-scavenger1.jpg|frame]]Scavengers are [[Animals]].
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[[Image:Mon-scavenger-lrg.jpg|frame|center|A pack of Scavengers decloak and begin their assault.]]
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