#(there is a legend that the greek playwright Aeschylus was killed by a bearded vulture mistaking his shiny bald head for a rock

[bestanimal]

I've sent you another ask about a bearded vulture in the past but I just wanted to add something!!

I was talking to my boyfriend about bearded vultures and apparently when he was a kid he went on vacation to South Africa and a bearded vulture had dropped a carcass down a hill and nearly flew directly into him while trying to grab the carcass

Omg! Your boyfriend almost had an Aeschylus moment.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

Has anyone told you about bearded vultures? They're my favourite kind of bird.

Vultures are wild because on the one hand it can refer to fuckers like Bearded Vultures, who eat bones and have red eyes and are basically dragons. Despite being mostly harmless, legend says a bearded vulture killed the greek playwright Aeschylus because--get this--it mistook his bald head for a rock and dropped a turtle on him, thus fulfilling the prophecy that he would be killed by a falling object.

and on the other hand, you have King Vultures, who are the avian equivalent of a felted craft project