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Happy International Vulture Awareness Day!

It’s about time I got the chance to draw my favorite animal for this account! This is the Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), a scavenger of scavengers, the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone! In order to digest bone, the Bearded Vulture’s stomach acid has a pH concentration of 1, about as acidic as battery acid! The Bearded Vulture can swallow bones up to the size of a lamb’s femur whole, or, it will break them into smaller, more manageable pieces. It does this by flying them to a height of 50–150 m (160–490 ft) above rocks and then dropping them so that they fall at a precise angle. They may need to repeat the drop multiple times if the bone does not break sufficiently. This learned skill requires extensive practice, and can take up to 7 years for the bird to master. They can fly with bones up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter and weighing over 4 kg (8.8 lb), nearly equal to their own weight!

Bearded Vultures are also one of the few animals known to use cosmetics. While their head, chest, and leg feathers are naturally a cream color, they will bathe in iron-rich dust or mud to dye them red, orange, rust, or pink! They will also transfer this coloration to their eggs.

The Bearded Vulture has been declining severely in Europe over the past several decades, and has also seen declines in Asia and Africa. Threats include loss of habitat, collisions with powerlines, poisoning (intentional and unintentional), and trophy hunting.

Bearded Vultures are one of the more charismatic species of vulture, but on this Vulture Awareness Day let us remember how important all vultures are. As highly effective scavengers with strong stomachs, vultures help clean the earth and stop the spread of diseases such as rabies and anthrax. They return nutrients that other organisms would miss into the cycle of life, and they do not need to hunt and kill to eat. This is one of the most imperiled group of birds, and without them, ecosystems around the world would collapse.

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once i told an astrology person that they should include where the ISS was in the sky when you were born and she was like that’s stupid. okay sorry for trying to make this a tiny bit more fun

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le miserable. there's just one of him

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the postal service names their shit exactly like how a 16 y.o. names angsty fanfic

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I was today years old when I found out Loch Ness looks like this and not like an oval like how the cartoons always depict it

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Ok then let me just see the other option and

Oh god dammit

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i saw a post earlier today and now i can’t find it but someone was like the only reason i get through studying is by saying “let’s go steal a grade” where they just imagine they’re doing research for a leverage con and they have to know all the information to pull it off successfully. I’m at my internship rn and i found the original score for the og show and redemption and let me tell you i have never been more productive

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Belted Kingfisher I know you don’t care but you mean everything to me girl

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I saw some weird ass conspiracy video thing today of like 'we were never meant to have access to yeast, that was cultivated in a lab and it harms us' bullshit and I was like well first off there's no such thing as 'meant to' and second of all um? the long history of acquiring yeast from beer foam stretching so far back ??????

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"God never gives you more than you can handle" is survivorship bias. People who got more than they could handle are dead.

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I WAS TRYING TO EDIT THIS BEAR TO BE CHROME TO MAKE A DISCORD SERVER JOKE AND I FUCKED IT UP REAL BAD

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"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

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I have responsibilities

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Tango. Uniform. Mike. Bravo. Lima. Romeo.

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sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”

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I love fallen london so much because it’ll asks you some genuine questions such as “how should we address you?” and then, the options include ‘deacon’ ‘lieutenant’ ‘private’?? ‘LORD’!!! or ‘ah, Si-, er, Mad-, er, yes’☝️🤓

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doing this to my mutuals as we speak