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[2066/11056] Cape vulture - Gyps coprotheres

Order: Accipitriformes Family: Accipitridae

Photo credit: Albert Froneman via Macaulay Library

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A cape vulture (Gyps coprotheres) at the Hoedspruit Endangered Species Centre, South Africa

by Lars Tjusberg

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White-backed Vulture

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The Three Stooges - Gypped in the Penthouse (1955)

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Hanoi Rocks in the summer of 1981

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How to not make friends, a guide by Gyp Rosetti.

Boardwalk Empire, “Two Imposters”, s3x11

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Eurasian griffon vultures (Gyps fulvus) in the Mariola mountains of Alcoi, Central Valencian Country.

This bird species had gone extinct in the area, but since the year 2000 the FAPAS Foundation has been working on a project to reintroduce them in the Canyet de les Pedreres fauna reserve area. The project has been successful and is now a referent when it comes to vulture populations in all the Iberian peninsula (which is saying a lot, considering that 90% of Europe's vultures live in the Iberian peninsula!), with about 80 wild vultures living there nowadays.

Once a week, the city council compiles the unwanted remains from local butchers' and brings them to the mountain for the vultures to eat. In that spot, there is a "hide" (a wooden cabin for birdwatching) where people can go to watch the vultures eating, as long as they stay silent to avoid disturbing the birds, though the vultures might take hours to come, since they're wild animals.

The local butchers, farmers, and hunters contribute to the project donating their unwanted meat, because the reintroduction of this species is mutually beneficial for the environment and for economical reasons. On the one hand, vultures exclusively eat dead animals and sometimes ill animals, which means that they help stop the spread of pathogens among animals, which also results in less illnesses in farm animals. On the other hand, by using vultures instead of industrial plants to treat and dispose of meat products, we can avoid economical expense and reduce the amount of greenhouse gases that would be emitted during the industrial treatment.

Photos by Eva Máñez, text translated and adapted from Raúl Abeledo Sanchis, both published in Guía Repsol.

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Made these absolutely shit BE/Barbie things on my phone and never posted them, so I guess I will now. Pt. 1 | Pt. 2

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White-rumped Vulture (Gyps bengalensis), family Accipitridae, found in South and SE Asia

ENDANGERED.

photograph by @devkinandan_wildlifer

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Did it make anyone else a little giddy when Feyre introduced Rhys as her husband at the Graysen estate?

I know it was just for convenience/to avoid explanations to the humans, but still.

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Gyp Rosetti

Boardwalk Empire

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The film tells the story of two pre-adolescent boys who both experienced sexual abuse as children, and how it affects their lives in different ways into their young adulthood. One boy becomes a reckless, sexually adventurous sex worker while the other retreats into a reclusive fantasy of alien abduction.

Mysterious skin is an 2004 coming out of age drama

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Cape Vulture (Gyps coprotheres)

© Ian White

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Gyp Rosetti fancam

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I did a bit of sketching while watching Boardwalk Empire - so many good faces and characters

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^Image credit: Lip Kee

Rüppell's vulture (Gyps rueppelli)

Rüppell's Vulture, also known as Rüppell's Griffon Vulture (not to be confused with the Griffon Vulture) is considered the world's highest-flying bird, with confirmed evidence of flying at 11,300 meters (37,000 feet) above sea level. They are mainly native to Africa, particularly East Africa and the Sahel region.