Cape vultures are swooping into a new exhibit at the Los Angeles Zoo
A “committee” of Cape vultures is swooping into the Los Angeles Zoo to make its home in an exhibit that seeks to mirror the ...
Purdue University10 个月
Black Vulture Ecology and Human-Wildlife Conflicts
Vultures play a critical role in the environment, cleaning up carcasses and acting as nature’s garbagemen. However, black vultures (Cathartes aura) are unique among New World vultures in that they are ...
MyNewsLA on MSN1 天
LA Zoo to Unveil New Habitat for Cape Vultures
The LA Zoo will open a Cape vulture exhibit Friday, offering residents and visitors a glimpse of the birds native to Africa, officials announced Tuesday. Cape vultures, named for their South African ...
Africanews English on MSN20 小时
Los Angeles Zoo welcomes new group of Cape Vultures
Home to Cape vultures since 1985, Los Angeles zoo is welcoming seven more of the birds. They’re being housed in an exhibit ...
Nature11 天
Vulture Ecology And Conservation
They call for more data on New World vultures to inform effective management strategies[4]. Finally, a long-term study of Eurasian Griffon Vultures revealed how human-induced changes in food ...
Forbes2 个月
The Vultures Disappeared And Half A Million People Died—A Biologist Explains Why
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the world of biology. Vultures in the Indian subcontinent dropped from a thriving population in the millions to a mere ...
BBC6 个月
How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths
And that’s not all, according to a new peer-reviewed study ... the highest in the world. Vultures, highly efficient scavengers, were historically relied upon by farmers to swiftly remove ...