Carcasses have been poisoned specifically to eliminate vultures, whose overhead circling might otherwise reveal the poachers' illicit activities. A team of researchers have warned that African ...
Most people don’t think much of vultures, despite their vital role as nature’s garbage collectors and first line of defense against diseases. Through the absence of thought, an absence of the birds ...
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Growing up in India, environmental economist Anant Sudarshan remembers the vultures. "When I used to go to school, the school bus would cross the river. And you always saw these vultures in vast ...
More than 120 vultures have died and at least 80 more have been taken for treatment after feeding on the corpse of a poisoned elephant, The Associated Press reported. SANParks, South Africa's national ...
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A new Tel Aviv University study, the first of its kind, has revealed that vultures, much like humans, experience changes in movement habits and social relationships as they age. Young vultures ...