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 ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Vultures performed a crucial public health service by clearing away carrion but a drug used to ...

Conservation has helped save many of the world's most important species from the brink of extinction, and these are their success stories.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Prasenjit Dutta This project is about mourning for vultures as a declining species. I had ...

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 ...

AI data scientists and wildlife biologists analyse and interpret data from vulture tags and develop an Artificial Intelligence for behaviour recognition. The GAIA I³ Lab at the Leibniz Institute for ...

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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 ...