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Vultures
Vultures are scavenging birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals. Ask questions about these birds here.
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What does the vulture look like?
Its very difficult to describe in words and therefore a link has been approved for the purpose of response
animal.discovery.com/birds/vulture/
How do condors adapt to their habitat?
Andean Condors eat dead animals as they do not kill animals. They are a carnivore.
Which religion leaves their dead outside for the vultures to eat?
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?
I would be loving to have some new highlights!
What are chest muscles on a bird for?
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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Is a vulture a scavenger - what is that?
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.
Why do turkey vultures gather in trees in groups of six to eight during the day?
Turkey vultures need each other to eat. They co-exist in groups in order to work together to devour dead animals.
What reptiles are eaten by vultures?
no. reptiles are anything that can shed their own skin. even turtles can do it, belive it or not.
How Many Egyptian Vulture Are Left?
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.
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.
Where do turkey vultures migrate?
Does a turkey vulture eat a deer?
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.
How big would a bird's wings have to be if the bird weighed 150 pounds?
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.
How do bird stay in the air without flapping there wings?
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.
Is a turkey vulture a carnivore?
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.
YES! A bird is basically a mammal. SO IT HAS TO BE WARM-BLOODED!
What is a turkey vultures predator?
Black vultures are mostly scavengers. They are predated by large raptors up to the size of golden eagles and northern eagle-owls.
Why is the vulture becoming extinct?
There are many things that can cause a species to become threatened or endangered. Some problems, such as pollution, can affect many plants & animals at the same time. In other cases, perhaps the loss of a wooded area for new construction, a problem might threaten only one particular species in that one area.
These are the major causes:
HABITAT LOSS
A habitat is the ecosystem a species needs to live in - a swamp, rainforest, woodland, limestone bog, desert etc. HABITAT LOSS IS THE GREATEST CAUSE OF SPECIES BEING ENDANGERED. Construction of homes, buildings, roads, timber harvesting, loss of farmlands and the creation of farmlands (more likely outside of the U.S., as in the rainforest of South America) threatens many ecosystems large and small.
POLLUTION:
Pollution can take many forms. Water, air and ground pollution are all related. Toxic substances dumped in a wooded area will destroy the soil and the species that live in it (from bacteria, to insects and the birds & animals that eat them) but it will also get into the groundwater below it. that water may lead to the same source of water that comes out of your faucet!!
COMPETITION FROM OTHER SPECIES
Sometimes there are just too many animals living in an area that compete for the space, water and food that is found there. For example, in NJ, a large population of raccoons (which turned out to have a parasitic disease) threatened the last remaining population of woodrats in NJ.
DISEASE
By our definition, diseases occur naturally. We are not talking about diseases that animals get because of pesticides or pollution. It is a part of nature that animals get diseases. But sometimes humans introduce diseases and problems into a species. The most publicized example is DDT. An insecticide that was used all over the U.S., it was found in water & soil and eventually worked its way up the food chain from small water feeders to the fish who ate the plant life in the water and the animals and humans who ate the fish! When DDT was left into the water it eventually broke down and became DDE. These toxic substances (along with others like PCB's) caused eagles and peregrine falconsto produce eggs that had shells so thin that they broke just from the mother sitting on them.
PREDATION
Predators are species that hunt other species as their way of getting food. For example, a peregrine falcon will kill small rodents (like mice & voles) and even kill other birds to get food. This is natural and expected. There are no predators that cause extinctions in NJ and none that we could find in our research - unless humans had changed the predators or introduced other predator species.
