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When you see a vulture like this, the first thing that comes to your mind is, these are disgusting, ugly, greedy creatures that are just after your flesh, associated with politicians.
When Charles Darwin went across the Atlantic in 1832 on the Beagle, he saw the turkey vulture, and he said, "These are disgusting birds with bald scarlet heads that are formed to revel in putridity."
It occurred to me at this very moment that if these ladies at the derby are aware of vulture's connection to death, then why aren't we talking more about these birds at crime scenes?
The two types of vultures that live in Louisiana are the turkey vulture and black vulture.
I don't know if you've ever seen a vulture up close or spent much time with them, but they're huge, huge.
Therefore, when you see a circling vulture, the bird is usually traveling from point A to B, rather than circling above something dead.
Actually, if you want to use a vulture to try to find a body, look for a vulture in a tree or on a fence post.
The turkey vulture that you see here is super cool, because it's one of the few bird species that can actually smell.
The evolutionary role of the vulture is to rid the earth of harmful toxins produced following death.
Vulture scavenging is somewhat gruesome.
Indeed, the feather by the pine cone was consistent with the turkey vulture.
So why in the world would a vulture wander 40 yards?
This suggested that brain matter was the lure for the vulture and illustrates how studying vulture behavior can help piece together some of the evidence.
This crime scene photo also depicts characteristic vulture scavenging behavior.
We zoom in, we see a white down feather, which is characteristic of the turkey vulture.
The turkey vulture smells the decay, lands.
Rather than looking for the vulture, look for the feathers and pristine bones.
A few centuries after that, a griffon vulture also died in the same vicinity.
Weighing up to 10 kilograms and possessing a wingspan of nearly 3 meters, the lappet-faced vulture is the undisputed king of the carcass.
This colossal competition is too dangerous for the tiny Egyptian vulture.
With a wingspan of only 180 centimeters, this vulture migrated to Africa from his family nest in Portugal, using thermal updrafts to stay aloft for hours at a time.
In fact, species like the mountain-dwelling bearded vulture have stomachs so acidic, they can digest most bones in just 24 hours.
The Asian and African Vulture Crisis has led to an epidemic of rabies in India, where infections kill roughly 20,000 people each year.
Some regions have even opened vulture restaurants where farmers safely dispose of drug-free livestock.
This next is the Sudanese girl, a few moments from death, a vulture hovering in the background, a picture that went round the world and shocked people into action on poverty.
A phony looking giant vulture attacks 'Lionel Trains' in this completely unconscious film.
The Flying Saucers' among other sci-fi films from the 50's to beef up the scraggly vulture's attacks.
At one point the big vulture is responsible for a few deaths, so the military puts the entire world under martial law and no one is allowed to go out of their homes.
I literally gasped out loud in the movie theatre when Jolie's character went up to the African child to rescue him from the vulture.
A sadly boring spectacle of a biblical film, even though almost all the production values are of a high quality (except that special effect vulture).
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