Vulture / Thom van Dooren.

Offers an enlightening new history of this much-misunderstood bird. Vultures vary in type and size, and while some have a diet mainly of bone, others are actually almost completely vegetarian. Most interesting, despite its notorious association with death, the vulture very rarely, if ever, kills for...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Van Dooren, Thom, 1980-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Reaktion Books, 2011.
Series:	Animal (Reaktion Books)
Subjects:	Old World vultures. New World vultures. Vultures. Vultures > Social aspects. Scavengers (Zoology) Vultures in art. Birds in literature. Vultures > Conservation. Human-animal relationships. Animals and civilization.