#Indian vultures

[fromtraveldiaries]

Red-headed vulture, Nagerhole national park, March 2023

[todaysbird]

the indian vulture is a large bird of prey native to the indian subcontinent. this bird is sadly critically endangered; they experienced significant population decline after cattle in india were given diclofenac to ease joint pain; vultures feeding on cattle carcasses experienced poisoning, and in 2006 bans on diclofenac were enacted in india, pakistan, and nepal. they are an often misunderstood bird that is typically shy and peaceful in nature, feeding on the dead but not hunting for their food.

[birds-of-prey-daily]

Indian Vulture

[arthistoryanimalia]

#InternationalVultureAwarenessDay:

Ustād Manṣūr (India, active 1590-1624)

Red-Headed Vulture and Long-Billed Vulture, c. 1615–20

Mughal, Jahāngīr Studio

folio from the Shah Jahan Album

ink, opaque watercolor, & gold on paper

39.1 x 25.6 cm (15 3/8 x 10 1/16 in)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 55.121.10.12 verso: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/451260

[shinonart]

I recently illustrated a memo game "Endangered Animal Babies" for Treecer. This memo game contains 72 unique illustrations and 36 endangered animal species. Each pair consists of the parent and the baby animal and all the illustrations were done in watercolor.

I'm really grateful for this opportunity and very happy with the outcome of the game! The game is sold by WWF Finland and Treecer at the moment.

SET 1| SET 2 | SET 3 | SET 4 | SET 5 | SET 6 | SET 7

[birbbones]

Large male African Leopard ssp. (Panthera pardus pardus), measuring 25.5cm (10 inches) long.

Circa 1919, Rowland Ward Ltd, London.

[legitimatesatanspawn]

Next up in "that's a pokemon or quirked animal wtf" we have the Indian Giant Squirrel.

Previous entries in the Real Life Pokedex include the bearded vulture which dyes its white feathers with red/orange dirt/mud:

And this doesn't get into crazy natural abilities exhibited by real animals. Or the absolute insanity that is ocean life or insects.

[gamer-ghoul]

YAYYY ITS THE FIRST SATURDAY OF SEPTEMER YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANSS

YAYYYYYY I LOVE VULTURESSS DID YOU KNOW NEW WORLD VULTURES AUCH AS TURKEY VULTURES AND BLACK VULTURE DONT HAVE A SYRINX/VOCAL ORGAN SO THE ONLY SOUNDS THEY MAKE ARE GRUNTS AND HISSES AND THEY SOUND SO COOL I LOVE VULTURESSSSS

[supremebirdbracket]

Let’s meet the contestants!

Himalayan vultures live, predictably, in the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau. Very large vultures, their weights range from from 6-12.5 kg (13-28 lb), and their wingspans from 2.56-3.1 m (101-122 in). They exclusively eat carrion and are most common birds found eating human corpses in Buddhist sky burials. Unusually for vultures, they dislike offal and prefer to eat the fleshy parts of carcasses. These vultures are near threatened due to diclofenac poisoning, but are not as heavily affected as many other vultures.

Indian vultures, of course, live in India and Pakistan, preferring open areas. While primarily diurnal, they have also been recorded taking advantage of bright moonlight to scavenge at night. They have wingspans of 1.96–2.38 m (6.4–7.8 ft) and weigh 5.5–6.3 kg (12–14 lb). Unfortunately, they are critically endangered due to diclofenac poisoning, a widespread problem known as the Indian Vulture Crisis.

[jimbargas]

Tears of the Ute

by Jim Bargas

[vulturesgalaxy]

There are many things about people's cultures that I would like to ask the significance or the why behind it. But I feel like when people hear you ask, "Why?" They feel offended and lash out. I'm genuinely curious, which is why I asked.

You can never learn something without asking why.

[vulturesdaily]

Reminder that every animal has a part in the ecosystem

[birds-of-prey-daily]

Indian Vulture

[michael-massa-micon]

Black Vulture - June 2024 Black vultures are beautiful birds when seen in the air. Up close on the ground they are ugly, but when they have their wings spread displaying the white underside, they are beautiful. I took a bunch of images of them flying near our camp. I especially liked the one where I captured one in flight near the palm trees. I didn’t realize that black vultures “fished,” but they appeared to be waiting for small fish to get near the surface in shallow water. Then they would strike. I saw them do this several different times. Maybe they would go for dead fish if it were available, but food is food when you are hungry. MWM

[tetsunabouquet]

I just read an article about the native Americans from the New York area calling us for reperations and an apology with an art exhibition involved, etc. Personally, whilst I do get wanting to know what happened to the Native Americans that were transported to the colonies, most of their remarks are downright stupid. Like, in a statement about the issue, they called themselves Indian. My god, how can they claim they want to pass down their culture, when they don't even understand their culture! Native Americans AREN'T Indians, that was a misconception by Colombus who was travelling to India and mistook Native Americans for Indians. That's basic history! Recently, human footprints have been found in America that are 23.000 years old, even before that discovery most researchers thought that the Native American arrival to the American continent was at least 15.000 years ago. Now, why knowing when Native Americans settled on the American continent is important, has to do with a group called the Proto Indo-Europeans, who were the ancestors to Europeans but also people like Indians and Persians. The latter groups were the first to seperate from the Proto Indo-Europeans and settle in Asia. It's why some Persians like Aria Shahghasemi are white passing, it's because his ethnic group was formed through racial intermingling with the ancestors of Europe and people from the Asian continent. The earliest notion of Proto Indo-Europeans is over 8000 years ago. Native American settlement predates Proto-Indo European culture by thousands of years! So it's literally impossible for them to be Indian and Colombus did not accidentally guess their ethnic origins right. He was so wrong, just like the Native Americans involved with that exhibition. I'm Dutch, but I literally know the origins of their culture better then they do! And it's not like this information is hard to research, anyone with internet access can educate themselves. And then I am not even talking about how pretty much every single of their current problems shouldn't be blamed on us, but the USA. They have been independent from us for over 200 years and whilst there was a New York region where ethnically Dutch did try to maintain Dutch culture and the language, they had all assimilated during the 1910s and there no longer is a Dutch area in New York for over a century by now. I had a god grandfather, he was the stepfather of my mom's ex. He was a Dutch man from New Jersey. He did not have any connection to his roots, which is why he unofficially adopted me as his granddaughter in the first place! He loved that his son had came home with a Dutch woman and when they broke up and my mom got pregnant with my dad who abandoned her at 6 months pregnant, he saw a chance to maintain a fatherly relationship with my mom and have a grandchild that he shares his cultural roots with. He had forgotten about most of the language because there is no Dutch community anymore and he enjoyed re-kindling that connection with me. So how are the current problems in any way, shape or form, linked to the Dutch? Anything like how this man says he wasn't allowed to practice his native cultural rituals and speak his language in the 1970s, were things the US had the power to change, not us. How can we as a foreign nation change US legislations?! Their yapping about our cultural relationships throughout the past 400 years, when our government hasn't been involved in 244 years and any Dutch community in the US being non-existent for over a century is bizarre. Our international relationship in the modern age is practically non-existent. Take your people's problems to the people who can actually improve your living conditions which is your own government in the US. Our culture should share the slave registers, but blaming any legistlation of the 20th century on our nation is absurd when we haven't had anything to say about this region in 244 years.

[justdiarythoughts]

List of sorely underrated animals, go:

- African forest buffalo:

- Red tree kangaroo:

- Indian giant squirrel:

- Pangolin:

- Long-tailed goral:

- Bearded vulture:

- Jerboa:

- Hoatzin: