Seen as harbingers of death and disease, staples of horror films and Halloween decor, vultures actually play an important ...

Long, hooked bills help vultures tear at muscle and other tissue; the lack of feathers on their heads helps them stay clean as they eat somewhat, uh, messy meals. America's vultures, and some good ...

The country has roughly 1,600 lions left.) Inevitably vultures also visit the livestock carcass, or they eat the poisoned lions themselves. Whatever the vector, the birds, which can feed in ...

Black vultures have been seen in large groups in Honesdale. While potentially spooky looking, the vultures provide an important service by cleaning up dead animals, the mayor says. Vulture effigies or ...

It only feeds on carrion—the carcasses of dead animals—and, by eating flesh before it rots, the vulture prevents dangerous bacteria and viruses from growing on decomposing carcasses.

"Pets are simply too big." Black vultures are primarily scavengers but will eat live animals There are largely two types of vultures in South Florida — turkey vultures, which have red heads ...

They may appear to transform a neighborhood into what looks like an old, scary Alfred Hitchcock movie, but black vultures congregating in Honesdale and other places in the region in the last few ...