Adult Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) in flight. This vulture is a specialised,solitary scavenger that feeds almost exclusively on bone. It will patrol a large mountain territory,looking for the skeleton of a carcass. Small bones are digested whole. Larger bones are dropped from a height to break them open,exposing the bone marrow.digest bone. Photographed near Lalibela in the Ethiopian highlands | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Raymond, Peter J. |
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