Vultures have an image problem. Seen as ugly and associated with death, they are among the least loved animals in the world.

Vultures are experts in waste management because they feed on the carrion of recently deceased animals. According to the World Wide Fund for Nature vultures help prevent the spread of disease by ...

Unlike mammal scavengers, vultures do not also hunt. They only feed on carrion – and in a country with more than 500 million livestock, they perform a crucial duty of removing disease-ridden ...

It is unique among our vultures in that it finds carrion by smell as well as by sight. When threatened, it defends itself by vomiting powerful stomach acids. Polytypic (4 ssp.). Length 27 ...

Despite the common perception that vultures have no value, they actually provide a vital ecosystem service as scavengers by cleaning the environment of carrion. Carcasses not scavenged by vultures ...

Dogs, cats, rodents (mice and rats), coyotes, opossums, raccoons, skunks, and birds (crows, ravens, and vultures) have commonly been reported feeding on carrion (Figure 4). Unlike other ...