The #Kingvulture #Sarcoramphus papa (#Cathartidae) is distributed from southern Mexico to large parts of #SouthAmerica. The strikingly #colorful species is the only representative of its #genus. It hunts smaller vertebrates and prefers carrion. At #carrion sites they successfully drive away other vultures. Usually only one egg is incubated, which is deposited in a tree holes etc.; no nest is built.
#biodiversity #Aves
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On today's episode of Offhand and Offbeat, I reflect on #Carrion and the ungenre of explorative games
@georgetakei now that's a clear case of #carrion luggage
Check this out. Found this game looking on youtube for "hidden gems" from #Sega #MegaDrive/#Genesis. Why I never stumbled across it in childhood...
The game is called "The Ooze". It's like some kind of #Carrion game but 25 years before. You can even spew streams from your body and control them to attack or collect slurry to grow in size.
"How human and ecosystem health are intertwined: Evidence from vulture population collapse in India"
Basically, vultures were very important in certain areas to remove cadavers from the area - such as countless cows raised by *lacto-vegetarians*. ...
An anti-inflammatory medicine was introduced about 3 decades ago to help treat cows (probably helps with milk production).
The substance stuck around in cows who died and were dumped "outside" or "elsewhere", as trash is often dumped.
Vultures ate dead "tainted" cows and also died.
As vultures died, other carrion eating animals came by and feasted, but they were not as nice as the vultures for the ecosystem and for the humans in the area.
Note that vultures often die because of eating poisoned animals, poisoned by humans. Lead, for example, is a common deadly poison left behind by bullets from hunters. Many animals deemed "pests" are poisoned and end up being eaten by a vulture who dies later. That's aside from the various poachers just outright killing vultures.
