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https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/25/why-do-buzzards-circle-endlessly-above-carrion/?sh=2b92416974d4 https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/10/25/why-

• swatcoder 3y ago
  Thanks for sharing these! And yeah, on close read, you'll see that they're all trying to communicate that you can't assume that the vultures are circling a carcass whenever you see them circling because they have other behaviors that involve circling as well. But it's an easy detail to miss in some of them for sure!
  • jncfhnb 3y ago
    I feel that’s not quite right. The writing appears to indicate that circling a carcass is the small minority. They’re finding the carcasses by smell of decay. I’ve read elsewhere vultures are actually good signals of gas leaks for this reason. They don’t have much of a reason to circle a carcass they intend to eat unless perhaps it’s a lagging indicator and they’re leaving the carcass. They don’t circle dying things because they don’t have the means to detect dying things. I’m not convinced circling vultures is a good sign that there’s a carcass below them.