These female vultures who prey on married men can lead them down that slippery path to infidelity. But what about the mother in-law, blood sisters and sister’s in-Christ? Indeed, a woman’s ...
A recent study from Tel Aviv University has shed light on how vultures’ behavior changes as they age, drawing parallels to human aging patterns. Led by Marta Acácio and Orr Spiegel, the study tracked ...
The Egyptians believed that all vultures were female, born without male involvement—what we now understand as parthenogenesis. This belief associated the vulture with purity, motherhood, and the ...
Vultures play a critical role in the environment, cleaning up carcasses and acting as nature’s garbagemen. However, black vultures (Cathartes aura) are unique among New World vultures in that they are ...
An 86-year-old French woman was left severely injured by a vulture in what is thought to be the first recorded case of the bird attacking a human. The woman suffered bone-deep wounds to her ankles ...
She learned about turkey vultures and other pieces of the puzzle of her homeland's natural cycles from her stepfather, Ed Bracisco, one of the last of the old-time Jolon Indians."When the turkey ...