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The lammergeyer, a sort of high-altitude vulture. They're known to eat the dead on Everest.
by garmaine 6y ago
The lammergeyer, a sort of high-altitude vulture. They're known to eat the dead on Everest.
- matkoniecz 6y ago> They even have been observed living at altitudes of 7,500 m (24,600 ft) on Mount Everest > The bearded vulture is the only known vertebrate whose diet consists almost exclusively (70 to 90 percent) of bone. > The bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), also known as the lammergeier and ossifrage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearded_vulture
- retrac 6y ago> ossifrage the bone-breaker Appropriate.
- kens 6y ago"ossifrage" is interesting to see in a sentence because the word appeared in a famous 1977 RSA cryptographic challenge with the solution "The magic words are squeamish ossifrage". The challenge appeared in Martin Gardner's Scientific American column and took 17 years to break. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamish_Ossifrage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Words_are_Squeamis...