African White-Backed Vultures (Photograph Courtesy Gerald and Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences Copyright ©2000)

African White-Backed Vultures (Photograph Courtesy Gerald and Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences Copyright ©2000)

The White-backed Vulture prefers to feed from large carcasses as in those of elephant or rhino. In a matter of hours hundreds of birds can strip a carcass down to the bare bones. 

Photograph Courtesy Of:

Gerald & Buff Corsi, California Academy of Sciences -- (Copyright © 2000)

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