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Kind of shocking since treating the birds are in the people's best interests as the vultures and kites clean up all the corpses lying around. https://en.wikipe
by smackay 12y ago
Kind of shocking since treating the birds are in the people's best interests as the vultures and kites clean up all the corpses lying around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
- yareally 12y agoNine species of vulture can be found living in India. Today, most of them are in danger of extinction.[1] This has not always been the case. In the 1980s there were as many as 80 million white-rumped vultures (Gyps bengalensis) in India. At that time, it was the most numerous species of raptor in the world.[2] Today, however, its population numbers only several thousand. Wow, that's really sad that it can go from being that numerous to nearly extinct in 20 to 30 years.
- SalesZip 12y agoIt was due to a medicine given to cattle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis
- yareally 12y agoYeah, seems very similar to what we went through with DDT and animals in the 1950s and 1960s. Hopefully India has its own Rachel Carson advocating for the birds and the environment.
- sjackso 12y agoIndeed. A vulture's digestion is strong enough to kill anthrax and cholera -- an ecosystem service not provided by scavengers like dogs and rats.