Vultures

Turkey vultures look like a turkey, while mountain lions don't.

No, vultures are birds that eat dead animals. They are scavengers and pick apart the remains of previously killed animals.

Scavengers prey on and consume those others creatures who have fallen and are unable to protect themselves. They help to break down and reduce the matter into smaller pieces. Scavengers can also be viewed as some of the Earth's cleansers, as they rid the land of the dead faster than decomposing does.

They can stay air-born indefinitely - provided there are enough thermal air-currents to keep them aloft.

Its very difficult to describe in words and therefore a link has been approved for the purpose of response

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Andean Condors eat dead animals as they do not kill animals. They are a carnivore.

Parsi's

Dear Fudgeecool,

You are right to some extent. Now we almost don't have Parsi community. Those (a bigger part) live in today's India (mainly in Bombay-Mumbai), do they keep on going for the same tradition of burial now-a-days?

Do you think descents of Jamshed-bhai Tataji or Feroze Gandhi keeps on maintaining the tradition of their forefathers?

My question was for knowing: Is someone keep on continuing the same old tradition?

For example, Hindus with burning (cremetion by fire) to ashes is still continuing the trend.

Have you heard about the Bahaiya community? Have they preserved the old tradition of their forefather Parsis?

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By chest muscles I am assuming you mean the bird's breast. In that case they perform the same operation as the pectoralis major in humans which is horizontal adduction. Essentially bringing the limbs from the side of the body to the front. This is the motion required by the bird to push air downward during each stroke of its wing. These muscles allow the bird to fly.

Yes, many species of Hawks are rodent hunters.

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A vulture is a scavenger. A scavenger is a carnivore that does not kill its own food but eats carrion, the dead bodies of animals; either prey killed by other hunters or animals that have died of other causes.

In africa, leopards, lions, hyenas, pythons, and crocodiles eat vultures.

Turkey vultures need each other to eat. They co-exist in groups in order to work together to devour dead animals.

no. reptiles are anything that can shed their own skin. even turtles can do it, belive it or not.

The estimated world population of Egyptian vultures is between 10,000 and 100,000 individuals, and the number is said to be declining due to poison being entered into the food chain within its range, lead poisoning from gun shots, electrocution by power lines, and disease. This species occurs in a number of protected areas and is also being monitored.

to tear its prey into smaller pieces

YES

Yes,but very few.Large animals like coyotes may take one on occassion,and hawks mat attack chicks.But because of their habit of throwing up vile stomach acid on attackers,most predators leave them alone.

There sense of smell and its very very good eye sight

Vultures are scavengers, so they don't hunt. Instead, they eat already dead animals. A deer carcass would definitely be eaten by any vultures that found it.

Generally a buzzard will not attempt to harm a human. Buzzards are scavengers and eat the carcasses of deceased animals. However, due to germs and the unpredictability of wild animals caution should always be exercised when encountering a wild buzzard.

A young boy named Marlon Lowe was picked up by a bird back in 1977. It flew up a couple feet then dropped him. Witnesses say it had a wingspan of 15 feet. Birds of prey must weigh twice as much as their prey. Marlon weighed about 60 pounds so they estimate the bird to be around100 pounds.

Gliding: Defined as falling at less than 45 degrees from the horizontal. Lift caused by some kind of aerofoil mechanism, allowing slowly falling directed horizontal movement. Streamlined to decrease drag forces to aid aerofoil. Often some maneuverability in air. Gliding animals have a lower aspect ratio (wing length/wing breadth) than flyers. The fundamentals of bird flight are similar to those of aircraft. Lift force is produced by the action of air flow on the wing, which is an airfoil. The lift force occurs because the air has a lower pressure just above the wing and higher pressure below. When gliding, both birds and gliders obtain both a vertical and a forward force from their wings. This is possible because the lift force is generated at right angles to the air flow, which in level flight comes from slightly below the wing. The lift force therefore has a forward component. High aspect ratio wings, which usually have low wing loading and are far longer than they are wide, are used for slower flight, almost hovering (as used by kestrels, terns and nightjars) or alternatively by birds that specialize in soaring and gliding flight, particularly that used by seabirds, dynamic soaring, which use different wind speeds at different heights (wind shear) above the waves in the ocean to provide lift.

Vultures are carnivores - they thrive on the remains of prey animals killed by hunters and of the (even more numerous) animals that died of natural causes or of wounds inflicted by other animals.

After the vulture eats the dead raccoon it gets energy from it. When the vulture dies, some of the energy is converted into the organisms that eat dead matter. The energy is then circulated through the ecosystem.