In the remote valleys of New South Wales, scientists have uncovered something quietly profound: the great scavengers of the Australian landscape — dingoes and wedge-tailed eagles — do not feed by chance, but by choice. Across forty kangaroo carcasses and two seasons, researchers from the University of Sydney and University of Glasgow documented how these apex animals select specific body parts with a precision long assumed to belong only to herbivores. The discovery invites us to reconsider the intelligence embedded in the act of consumption itself, and how the feeding choices of the powerful