Sentences with phrase «of vultures»

In India, for example, a rapid decline of vultures in the 1990s led to a rise in feral dogs — and rabies outbreaks.

NEW DELHI — The Indian government has decided to phase out a widely used veterinary painkiller implicated in the catastrophic decline of vulture populations on the subcontinent.

And then there were the likes of Patrick, our diminutive and humorous Zulu guide in the Hluhluwe - Imfolozi game reserve, who pointed out to us the evidence of a very recent gory battle for supremacy between two mighty rhinos, the outcome of which had no doubt been witnessed by a flock of vultures circling nearby!

«There were a lot of vultures who wanted to take us over when the chips were down.

Cambodia supports the largest population of vultures in Southeast Asia, but there only a few hundred individuals left in the country.

As usual, the power producers and Gridco put the blame at the doorstep of the ECG, which, in turn, put the blame on the activities of vultures and other birds.

Hundreds of vultures on a carcass can easily frighten away packs of dogs, Şekercioğlu says.

The researchers counted the largest numbers of vultures in late afternoon, but location mattered: Power plants near areas where the vultures tended to roost had more visitors in the early morning and late afternoon, whereas power plants near feeding sites had more at midday.

He locates her in Lanka by the aid of a vulture who had witnessed the abduction.

Within three years, we will have more than enough distress to overwhelm the sizable resources of vulture investors.

It's hard for me to imagine what an image of vultures eating dead bodies could possibly have in common with a Myth about Zeus having sex with a man.

A major downturn in the economy can force young companies into failure - or into the talons of a vulture fund that takes it private.

The disappearance of vultures meant the loss of one of nature's tidiest ways of disposing of a dead body.

«Why vultures matter, and what we lose if they're gone: Researchers highlight ecosystem, human impacts of vulture declines.»

Poisons account for more than 60 percent of vulture mortality in Africa.

Now, more than a decade later, Buechley and Şekercioğlu have examined factors affecting the extinction risk of more than 100 bird species, including 22 species of vultures, which eat carrion exclusively, and other scavenging birds that have broader diets.

Subalusky, then a Yale University graduate student working with David Post, decided to take a closer look when she first saw the aftermath of the mass drownings: massive flocks of vultures and storks picking over the smelly carcasses.

The good sale prices for subprime portfolios is not a sign of strength, but a sign that there is a lot of vulture capital looking for deals.

In the afternoon we only see ostriches, a group of vultures from a distance, donkeys, cows and horses.

Greta Alfaro is another emerging artist who has caught our eye with her video of vultures descending on a banquet.

Higher lead levels were found in the blood of vultures in the hunting season and in hunting areas, suggesting that the source of the lead in their blood stream was lead bullets used for hunting.

A third of all vultures caught and tested in the Botswana study showed elevated levels of lead in their blood, most likely due to ingesting lead bullet - contaminated flesh.

Now, the center of the vulture crisis is in sub-Saharan Africa.

Spencer Finch's continuous - line drawings of vulture flight patterns, like Trubkovich's work, reflect on the limits of visual perception and the fallibility of recollection, while Adam McEwen's machined graphite facsimiles of ordinary objects underscore the schism between memory and reality.

Video games, board games and cartoons were created to teach children about the dangers of vulture investors, and the business school at the University of Buenos Aires boasts a debt museum devoted to the saga.

The mouse might admire the prowess of the vulture but the vulture will eat it just the same.

Buried in each is the beak of a vulture or the jaw of a wild boar, explicit reminders that the Goddess is death - giver as well, as source of life.

-LSB-...] Cinnamon roll pancakes, Nutella stuffed pancakes, and Pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes (for Pancake Night)-- didn't get to try because of the vultures in the dorm!

The only reason Theo is in talks already is because there are lots of vultures already knocking on the door — both club and Theo wanted to wait until summer but the pressure from external is forcing hands.

I really thought that the days of vultures circling had ended, but thanks to Kroenke, they are back.

I'm not being funny but Sanchez's concentration hasn't been the same since the rumours of Chelsea, City and the rest of the vultures circling around for his services.

«[Obama] had a) the advantage of a historic African - American showing, and b) the advantage of shapeless opponent in Mitt Romney who came to be seen in the 2012 election as a caricature of vulture capitalism,» Torres said.

With all due respect and absolutely no intention of being nasty, it conjures, in arresting technicolor, the image of the vulture rousing to the thick smell of carrion!

Hunters» bullets shatter inside their prey and can then be absorbed into the blood stream of the vultures when they feed on these animals or their remains.

On average, the facial skin of vultures contained DNA from 528 different types of micro-organisms, whereas DNA from only 76 types of micro-organisms were found in the gut.

Rotting, stinking cattle carcasses seem to be strewn all over northern India — the result of a mysterious and catastrophic die - off of vultures.

Now, a team of 14 U.S. and Pakistani scientists has identified the widely used painkiller diclofenac — a nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drug — as the cause of vulture decline in the Punjab province of Pakistan.

Vibhu Prakash, an ornithologist and chief of the Vulture Care Center in Pinjore, Haryana, India, says that the drug is rapidly excreted by livestock and is thus unlikely to be responsible for large numbers of bird deaths.

As part of the Bird's Nest Protection Program, WCS has employed six community members to protect the nests of these vultures.

But perhaps the strangest pieces of art were the plaster breasts that protruded from numerous walls; some were burst open to reveal the skulls of vultures or weasels.

In an effort to design conservation strategies that might slow the plummet of vulture populations across Africa, the Gorongosa Restoration Project recently teamed up with Botha's Endangered Wildlife Trust and researchers from Boise State University's Intermountain Bird Observatory.

In the mid-1990s India experienced a precipitous vulture decline, with more than 95 percent of vultures disappearing by the early 2000s.

Losses of vultures can allow other scavengers to flourish, according to biologists Evan Buechley and Çağan Şekercioğlu.

And the poisoning of vultures in Asia that threatened to wipe out the three scavenging bird species of the Indian subcontinent has been checked through a combination of replacement drugs in livestock and captive breeding efforts, says ornithologist Nancy Clum of WCS.

That's because the preserve is at the heart of Vulture Safe Zone 1, a 200 - kilometer - wide circle where conservationists are working with local residents to provide uncontaminated carcasses for the vultures to eat, and with veterinarians to prevent the use of the drugs that kill the birds.