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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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Despite filling very similar garbage disposal related niches, the vultures in North America and the vultures in Eurasia/Africa are really not that closely related. Large, hulking, and menacing, the Old World Vultures , who reach their greatest diversity in sub-Saharan Africa, had a reputation, maybe undeserved, for viciousness.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Below legal size for humans is still legal for pelicans. For long it was assumed that the saplings cannot survive being under water half a year, from spring to August, but recently another theory was tested. Over time, an unusual bond of mutual likeliness was created. And they both graze grass and browse younger branches and saplings.

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