every single day I think about how american black vultures are known for engaging in interspecific allopreening (preening between different species)
and they have a specific relationship with crested caracaras, in which the black vultures assist them by not only preening them after meals but also leading them to food in the first place— due to their superior sense of smell— while the caracaras assist the black vultures by acting as a warning signal in case of danger
and while this is more typical of black vultures, this is not common at all for any member of the falconidae family— it’s a special bond!
yet another post in favor of vultures everyone , hope you enjoy:) and I implore you to do some more research on these incredible birds !!
EDIT: I meant interspecific allopreening! excuse my typo!
Sometimes a gender freak is the cool tatted up pierced alt enby with a neon green mohawk and a dramatic fashion sense involving leather jackets and skirts and sometimes a gender freak is that normal ass looking schlub who always wears jeans and you find out later he sees himself as sort of an accipitriforme rather than a man
Death to all israeli occupation soldiers. They are responsible for the bomb that tears a child's body in half. They are responsible for the destruction of the entire gaza landscape. They are responsible for the orphaned children for the disabled children. They are responsible for every parents tears. They are responsible for making hospitals battle grounds. They are responsible for the starvation and for the disease. There is no sympathy for people who commit these acts of absolute inhumanity. Netanyahu cannot do anything without willing happy murderers and an apathetic and hateful society. And worst some fucking zionist will screenshot this and talk about how "u need to have sympathy for iof bc they're drafted" they are the reason I see the limbs of my people all over the ground like torn pieces of clay.
Scavengers are essential to ecosystems, and outside of the oceans vultures are the only known obligate scavengers. The removal of festering carcasses helps keep the environment disease-free. Vultures' stomach acid is especially corrosive, allowing them to safely digest rotten food that would be lethal to other scavengers.
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Lappet-Faced Vultures showing off their snazzy pantaloons.
Distributed through much of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula, though it is absent from much of the central and western parts of the continent and declining elsewhere in its range.