Their long, swanlike necks gracefully arching, the brown, gray and white birds eagerly hop around their habitat at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Their artistic ballet has a purpose. Winners claim … ...

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Vultures reduce the greenhouse gases that decomposing corpses emit, and remove from the environment a host of potentially pestilent microorganisms found in rotting meat. The bacteria behind ...

Not being picky about your food means you can live just about anywhere, and some vultures are good at adapting to landscape fragmentation caused by humans, but new research forthcoming in The ...

The first breeding pair of turkey vultures in Massachusetts were recorded in Tyringham in 1954. The species is now a nearly year-round resident. Vultures are not harbingers of death, but partners in ...

Vultures' carrion diets eliminate carcass smells and reduce disease. ... While this may not seem like a glamorous diet, it’s one that’s very beneficial to humans and the environment.

"Vultures remove carrion from the environment, keeping it more clean." It is also highly unlikely that a hawk in South Florida would carry away a pet dog or cat, which was a worry expressed on the ...

Vultures are often seen as harbingers of death, their circling skyborne silhouettes a sign that a fresh carcass is nearby. But it turns out these scavengers are also life savers, protecting ...

Sudarshan and study co-author Eyal Frank, an environmental economist at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy, examined the impact of the drastically reduced vulture population ...

Vultures in the Americas, such as the California and Andean condor, are not closely related to the Old World vultures of Eurasia and Africa. (They don’t inhabit Antarctica or Australia).

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