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Here is the infamous folk drawing that started it all, and spawned posters, t-shirts, patches and hundreds of memes, well before the internet even existed. It was drawn in Bismark, North Dakota in 1973, but no one knows the artist to attribute it to. “Patience my ass… I’m gonna kill something!!”It’s funny and ironic, but the truth is… a vulture would never say that. They are, as we all know, “nature’s garbage men”, or to be more PC… nature’s sanitation engineers. So, why don’t they kill something? Why bother?!! Just like undertakers have the world’s most secure job… vultures have the world’s most secure food source. A healthy vulture will never go hungry. The two things you can never avoid are taxes and death. The government takes advantage of the former… the vultures take advantage of the latter. They fill a truly vital ecological niche on the planet. We need them. They have evolved to be specialists in their occupations. Without vultures, I doubt the world would survive 100 years before most vertebrates were wiped out. They keep disease in check. Let me point out that I’m referring to areas where vultures were present, but then were eliminated or reduced. Ecosystems that never had vultures have their own established way of dealing with things, through other means.Vulture’s digestive tract can easily handle bubonic plague, rabies, distemper, anthrax… most all other evil, little, biological nasties that threaten other forms of life on Earth. It’s all good to them. How can they do this? It’s complex. But basically, their digestive tract has two tools it uses. One is a very low Ph in their digestive juices. It is so corrosive that if a vulture eats meat that contains lead bullets or shot, it will dissolve the lead and give vultures lead poisoning. That is their Achilles’ Heel. A poisoned vulture usually means lead poisoning and is one of the biggest threats to vultures. Of course, lead bullets are a man-made invention, so once again… hurray for mankind, for finding a way to poison the un-poisonable. But besides that, up to 60% of toxic bacteria is simply dissolved. Bye-bye deadly microorganisms. And the other tool that vultures have is that the remaining 40% that isn’t destroyed.. it just hangs out in a vulture’s gut, doing nothing. Vultures are cool with that. No biggie. It’s got to be pretty frustrating for the toxic microorganisms, who are used to getting their way. But vultures are simply not affected.They have some other features that help them with this. You’ve probably heard that the reason their heads are featherless is so that they can freely stick their heads into the nastiest of stink-holes, and not worry about getting their feathers all contaminated. That’s true. They stay cleaner that way. The sun and rain wash away extraneous filth. It comes in handy. Also, they have a way to disinfect their feet, which are always walking on top of putridness. In another irony, to cleanse their feet, they simply defecate on them… quite regularly. The uric acid is so strong, it kills whatever is on their legs and feet (and it also keeps them cool) . All these things make them excellent at staying healthy, despite what they eat.Now the original question asked, included “They are huge and have sharp talons and bills”. That’s not exactly true. Let me explain it this way… When I first started working as a Raptor Rehabber, I was introduced to all types of raptors… eagles, hawks, owls, osprey and vultures. I had to learn how to handle and hold these large vicious birds. They all have large sharp beaks, as we all know. Understandably, I was concerned about getting bitten by any of these birds. It wasn’t long before I learned something quite surprising. All these beaks, even an eagle’s beak, are the least of my concerns:Even this guy really isn’t going to hurt me with his beak. I’ve been bitten by raptors more times than I can count. No big deal, other than the occasional pinch, when they get you just right. No, beaks of most raptors are not a problem. The problem is these:THESE are sharp talons. This is an osprey. And is something that is very dangerous to handle. Osprey and most all raptors use them to hunt live prey. ON the other hand, these are the talons of a vulture:These feet are the 90 lb. weaklings of the raptor world. They are like chicken feet. Not sharp, the talons are not long, not strong. A vulture can’t grab with them. Guess what he uses them for. I’ll tell you…. walking! Imagine that! Yep, just for walking. They are not weapons. So vultures can’t kill live prey with them, or even grab it. But they can walk and balance a heck of a lot better than an osprey, with those long sharp talons. So, when I handle most raptors, the feet must be controlled because they can do serious damage. But with vultures, it’s not a worry at all.Again, on the other hand… whereas beaks of most raptors are not a concern, the beak of a vulture most definitely is! Look at this:And this is just a tiny BABY! (I love this picture. I call it “I am Vulture! Hear me Roar!”) Beaks are long, big, sharp and strong. They use them to tear apart large dead animals like dead wolves, dead lions, dead elephants, etc. I was once carrying a Black Vulture against my chest, trying to control his head. I slipped up, he spun his long neck around, and slashed out at my eye! I had a long deep scar just 1/2″ below my eye for quite a while. So they are nothing to mess with. But a vulture can’t kill live prey with his strong beak because he’d first have to catch it with his chicken feet. And that’s not going to happen.So there you go. Vultures are very specialized. They eat dead animals and they are very good at it. But they generally don’t hunt them. They are very good at finding dead animals. A Turkey Vulture has one of the most amazing senses of smell in the animal world. They can smell a rotting carcass from thousands of feet in the air. And here’s something interesting: the Black Vulture, a close relative, is nearly always hanging out with a Turkey Vulture (red headed vultures). Black Vultures can hardly smell at all. So what they do is, they soar up in the sky a few hundred feet above the Turkey Vulture. And when the Turkey Vulture smells a meal, they follow him down and take it from him. The Black Vultures are the more aggressive of the two. So the Turkey Vulture, after finding food, has to share his meal, and sometimes even wait until the others are done. He doesn’t seem to mind though. Black vultures act as protectors. They have a strange but stable relationship that way.Vultures are very important, but they aren’t killers. We call them ugly, but even a vulture is cute when he’s little and fluffy. Here’s a video of me feeding a brood of little vulture chicks. A little messy… but who among us can say we haven’t had our faces covered in chunks of raw meat?!Yes, that’s me wearing camo, so that they don’t recognize me as a human. They are the most impressionable of all birds when young. Very smart. We don’t want them thinking man is where they get their food. I don’t want them believing I’m the mama! So I cover up, don’t talk to them, and use this adult vulture puppet to feed them until they can be set free.So cute! Kinda look like penguins at this age, don’t they? Yes… they are related. But that’s another story.Now here’s the bad news. Certain populations dropped drastically over the past three decades from as many as 90 million to only 10,000 today, making them critically endangered worldwide. Most species are endangered. Some species are better off.There are a few reasons why this magnificent bird could be close to disappearing. In 2003 scientists identified diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat livestock, as the main cause for this decline. So, when cattle treated with diclofenac die and the vultures feed on them, the medicines work their way into its body system, causing renal failure. Vultures don't have a certain enzyme that can break down diclofenac and therefore it hits their kidney dangerously. Vultures eating the carcasses of animals recently treated with the drug die from severe kidney failure within weeks of ingesting it.Then there’s the rampant lead poisoning killing many more.Plus… many ignorant fools shoot them. Please help people understand they are vital and endangered. This is no joke. They could soon be gone.So… Save a Vulture… Save the World.EDIT: I was asked to add this information that I wrote in response to a comment:Here is an example of what happens when vultures disappear. In the 1990’s, India lost 95% of their vultures. Following the decline of vultures, India experienced a strong uptick in feral dogs… by an estimated 7,000,000. The increase in dogs, feeding on disease-ridden carcasses, is thought to have at least partially caused a rabies outbreak that was estimated to have killed 48,000 people from 1992-2006 in India… deaths that may have been avoided if not for the disappearance of vultures. Vultures can eat any disease that shows up on a carcass. Many of those diseases are deadly to various other vertebrates. But since the vultures get there first, and either consume the disease ridden flesh… or they eat it before a disease takes hold, before some insect infects it… they have just prevented the spreading of any number or diseases. Insects become carriers. Other animals that have more contact with humans and other mammals get infected by those animals become carriers, and it just spreads. The number of diseases that can result from rotting carcasses is immense.And meat doesn’t have to be rotting to putridity to become diseased. Many animals are scavengers and will eat flesh they don’t know is diseased. Rats are one classic example. And many of those animals die. They, in turn, are eaten by more animals, further spreading the disease, and so on. And/or more insects spread the disease. That’s how epidemics happen.** If you enjoyed this vulture story, I have 25 fun bird rescue videos I took at the Raptor Center, some of which you may find interesting to watch: https://www.youtube.com/user/wun...

Q. Why aren't people buying UVC lights instead of disinfectant wipes to kill the coronavirus. [edited]A. Very simple answer, Jeff Grippe. Wipes work more readily on surfaces, cost far less, and you won't get harmed by them vs a UVC light. 👎The industrial and medical use of UV sterilization, or ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, has been found to be extremely effective. Sources of UV sterilization can kill over 99% of viruses, bacteria, and fungi in an extremely short amount of time. [1]This would cause one to wonder why the health agencies don't push UVC lights for home use. Especially since the manufacturers push their products as the answer to the former Covid-19 epidemic, now pandemic.If you had one to sanitize a room, you would have to leave the room while it's on. 😳 As has been recognized for some time, UVC radiation can damage the superficial tissues of the eye, and care must be taken to avoid excessive exposures of the eye. UVC wavelengths can damage ocular vision. [2]Threfore. they are not safe for human skin exposure. 😳 UV lamps do not sterilize hands or skins areas, and can actually cause irritation. [2, 3]What about Covid-19?Basically, far-UVC can’t get far enough into the human body to do any damage to bacteria or viruses. Nor will UVC kill bacteria or viruses in shadows within a room. [4]In ICU hospital rooms and clinics of infectious disease patients, after using a disinfectant aerosol solution in a misting machine (~1-2 hours), we send in a mobile remote-control robot which irradiates the area, eliminating shadows as it moves, for 30 minutes. Really cool, but no one can be in the room while it operates. 👍●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) is part of the World Health Organization (WHO). One of its major goals is to identify causes of cancer. Based on the available data, IARC has made the following determinations:UV radiation (including UVA, UVB, and UVC) is carcinogenic to humans.[1] Far-UVC light: A new tool to control the spread of airborne-mediated microbial disease[2] Unusual High Exposure to ultraviolet-C Radiation - PubMed[3] 2019 Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Myths & Facts[4] Misleading report claims UV light, chlorine and high temperatures can kill COVID-19

Vaccines do not “wash away” viruses or anything else. Vaccines consist of molecules that mimic one or more molecules on the outer shell of a virus that will trigger the immune system's response to that specific virus. When a vaccine is administered it “teaches” our immune systems how to quickly recognize the invader so that our immune system will quickly target and destroy the invaders. Our immune systems do all of the work naturally.Since different viruses have different patterns of molecules on their outer shell, vaccines must be specific for each of them, which is why there must be different vaccines for different disease causing viruses. For example, a different vaccine must be developed each year for the particular flu viruses expected to be going around the following year. There are a lot of them and different ones pop up during different years.To create a vaccine for a newly identified virus (COVID-19 is new) requires a lot of work to determine exactly what molecules specific to it will work to trigger the body's immune system to identify and eliminate that specific virus.