The country has roughly 1,600 lions left.) Inevitably vultures also visit the livestock carcass, or they eat the poisoned lions themselves. Whatever the vector, the birds, which can feed in ...

The Bearded Vulture is a unique bird that specialises in eating bone marrow by breaking bones and swallowing them whole ...

It only feeds on carrion—the carcasses of dead animals—and, by eating flesh before it rots, the vulture prevents dangerous bacteria and viruses from growing on decomposing carcasses.

Black vultures and California condors depend more on keen eyesight to locate dinner. Although it may seem a little unsettling that these birds eat dead animals, without them our ecosystem would be ...

sheep-eating parrots in New Zealand, also chew on cars’ window seals, and he’s observed the same behavior among striated caracaras in the Falkland Islands. Bildstein, who recently authored a book ...

While church leaders have been told the vultures eat pieces of tar roof to aid in digestion, it's more likely that the birds are digging into the roof to search for insects beneath the top layer ...