Vultures and other scavenger creatures can take just about anything thrown at them. Its extremely potent, acidic gastric juices will scorch almost any bacteria, virus and parasite. Some scavengers have specific enzymes that break down botulinum toxins – the most potent poisons known – produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. This appears in rotten meat.
Other scavengers have tuned their neurological systems to vomit immediately after swallowing a carrion soaked in bacterial toxins. And in the case of the vulture, its urine is known to be rich in ammonia, a sterilizing agent.
Why don't vultures get sick from carrion?
When hyenas lived in the Arctic
These animals crossed from Asia to America through the Bering Bridge during the Ice Age.
Can an alligator have feathers?
If alligators and crocodiles have the genes that allow them to form feathers, why aren't they feathered?
We were able to start breeding animals 2000 years earlier than previously thought
This is demonstrated by remains of charred manure that are 13,000 years old.
They discover that more than 50 animals that we thought were mute can speak
Acoustic communication plays a fundamental role in aspects such as partner attraction and a number of other behaviors. The finding takes us back to 407 million years ago.
Hairy snail found in 99-million-year-old chunk of amber
How come they had hair? Its utility? Scientists think that Mesozoic land snails probably benefited from their fine hairs. Would it make them more attractive?