A couple of cool looking vultures:

[tblue37]

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#1 The Himalayan vulture

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The bearded vulture is the only known animal whose diet is almost exclusively bone. In fact, it usually disdains the actual meat and lives on a diet that is typically 85-90% bone marrow.

[Sanity Claws]

1. The bearded vulture must have an extremely powerful beak

to crack open bones and get at the marrow.

[Glorfindel]

3. It actually drops the bones on rocks while flying in order to break them

Quite a clever bird!

[Sanity Claws]

4. Aha!

The bird is smarter than I am. I hadn't even thought of that.

[grumpyduck]

2. Gawd, I'd hate to run into those in a dark alley. nt