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Although gruesome, vultures are key forensic players, and here's why.
Vultures will consume a dead human just like they will consume roadkill.
But you don't ever hear about that, and it's because vultures are so good at what they do.
If vultures depend on death for survival and if they scavenge humans, then how can vultures be absent from forensic textbooks and training manuals?
Vultures accelerate decay.
And the skeletonized body could have been there for as little as five days if scavenged by vultures.
I responded to the detectives and told them that vultures like areas with water.
Vultures aren't attracted to blood, and they typically don't wander.
So my first job here was to determine if vultures were at the scene.
One of the reasons I love vultures is because they tend to operate in a manner that can be explained by biology and physics.
I also went through my experiences with trapping and GPS tagging vultures.
And then the year-long process of monitoring vultures via remote GPS technology.
The feather by the pine cone indicated that vultures were at the scene.
This photo illustrates the scavenging efficiency of vultures.
You're not likely going to see the vultures at the crime scene.
Instead, vultures just leave these very subtle clues.
Vultures are important because they are so good and fast at what they do.
When we include vultures in forensic studies, we paint a more thorough picture of what happened, when it happened and who it happened to.
And if anyone ever brings up vultures on a date, you'll know they're a keeper.
In the mountainous regions of Tibet, they practice "sky burial," a ritual where the body is left to be consumed by vultures.
I personally recently learned that our human ancestors would follow flocks of vultures and then they would help them to identify where carcasses have been dropped by large carnivores, and these humans will scavenge and eat part of that meat.
Vultures clean up our environment by literally digesting disease-causing pathogens, and they finish carcasses that would otherwise cost us lots of money to clear from the environment.
A sizable flock of vultures is capable of bringing down a carcass the size of a zebra straight to the bone within just about 30 minutes.
This bird’s powerful beak and strong neck easily tear through tough hide and muscle tissue, opening entry points for weaker vultures to dig in.
High above the commotion are Ruppell’s Griffon vultures.
But the sight of their fellow vultures guides them to the feeding.
And the tuberculosis doesn’t stand a chance at infecting the vultures.
This adaptation helps smaller vultures supplement their diet with dung, while larger vultures can consume diseased meat up to 3 days old.
But while vultures can easily digest natural waste, man-made chemicals are another story.
Diclofenac, a common veterinary drug used to treat cattle in India, is fatal to vultures.
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