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Old World Vultures are not closely related to New World Vultures (which are closer to storks). The mechanism which kills vultures in India and Africa does not p
by nukeman 2y ago
Old World Vultures are not closely related to New World Vultures (which are closer to storks). The mechanism which kills vultures in India and Africa does not present the same issue in vultures native to North America.
- LAC-Tech 2y agoAll my schoolboy taxonomy feels useless now! Crazy that it was convergent evolution.
- mkl 2y agoThe bit about being closer to storks seems disputed, and contradicted by more recent DNA evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_vulture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_vulture