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05-08-2009, 01:57 PM
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| | | Re: Watch out, there's a Vulture about
Usjade where are you writing from? What area? |
14-08-2009, 10:36 PM
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| | | Re: Watch out, there's a Vulture about
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kayleigh  I thought they only lived on dead stuff didn't know they would take cats...
Sorry but to believe this I would have to witness it first hand..  | Hi Kayleigh (again  ) - not following you, just trying to boost my post count legitimately.
Interesting stuff about the escapees, I must say, though I must say I can't see any reason why a vulture wouldn't be able to take a domestic cat.
Obviously, in Africa, there's heaps of carrion left rotting all over the place so they hardly need to hunt. In Britain, other than the urban kebab, there's next to no carrion, surely.
Put another way, a raptor-sized vulture (as vultures are - then again, are they not themselves classed as raptors?) would surely have the killing power and strength to carry off small animals just like, say, a golden eagle.
Interestingly, I'd assume a vulture would be more suited to killing it's own prey than other birds of prey would be at attempting to occupy a vulture's niche. They're the dustbinmen of the savannah and they (vultures) do a great job. Could a hawk develp a taste for putrifying flesh?
I'd assume that less likely.  |
15-08-2009, 04:15 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Watch out, there's a Vulture about
No need to worry about your cats and babies in prams etc., Dumb the escaped Vulture has been recaptured in Brighton on Monday.
From Settle to Brighton in four weeks and no reports of sightings is amazing.
Dumber, who escaped in April, is still on the loose though |
15-08-2009, 08:30 PM
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| | | Re: Watch out, there's a Vulture about
Dumbfounded! |
15-08-2009, 10:40 PM
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| | | Re: Watch out, there's a Vulture about
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Originally Posted by El Neilio 10 Dumbfounded! | XD nice one.
How did they catch it? A large net? An A-A battery? |
16-08-2009, 09:27 AM
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| | | Re: Watch out, there's a Vulture about
I quote from the Westmorland Gazette
"Dumb was found resting in a tree being harrassed by the local seagulls - local accounts on previous days imply a similar treatment by crows.
He was tempted from his perch afetr five hours by falconers from Huxley's Birds of Prey Centre, who waited patiently after offering him dead chicks"
I like it, El Neilio 10  | | | |
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