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Happy International Vulture Awareness Day!

It’s about time I got the chance to draw my favorite animal for this account! This is the Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus), a scavenger of scavengers, the only known vertebrate whose diet consists of 70–90% bone! In order to digest bone, the Bearded Vulture’s stomach acid has a pH concentration of 1, about as acidic as battery acid! The Bearded Vulture can swallow bones up to the size of a lamb’s femur whole, or, it will break them into smaller, more manageable pieces. It does this by flying them to a height of 50–150 m (160–490 ft) above rocks and then dropping them so that they fall at a precise angle. They may need to repeat the drop multiple times if the bone does not break sufficiently. This learned skill requires extensive practice, and can take up to 7 years for the bird to master. They can fly with bones up to 10 cm (3.9 in) in diameter and weighing over 4 kg (8.8 lb), nearly equal to their own weight!

Bearded Vultures are also one of the few animals known to use cosmetics. While their head, chest, and leg feathers are naturally a cream color, they will bathe in iron-rich dust or mud to dye them red, orange, rust, or pink! They will also transfer this coloration to their eggs.

The Bearded Vulture has been declining severely in Europe over the past several decades, and has also seen declines in Asia and Africa. Threats include loss of habitat, collisions with powerlines, poisoning (intentional and unintentional), and trophy hunting.

Bearded Vultures are one of the more charismatic species of vulture, but on this Vulture Awareness Day let us remember how important all vultures are. As highly effective scavengers with strong stomachs, vultures help clean the earth and stop the spread of diseases such as rabies and anthrax. They return nutrients that other organisms would miss into the cycle of life, and they do not need to hunt and kill to eat. This is one of the most imperiled group of birds, and without them, ecosystems around the world would collapse.

#Best thing I've seen all day

writing-prompt-s

"FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, I LAID DORMANT! WHO DARES TO DISTURB MY-Oh, it's you."

#Every cat in existence

writing-prompt-s

You look at your Toddler in your Arms, then at your Vampire SO rolling on the floor laughing, and then at your bleeding hand. After YEARS of not even french kissing your SO to not become a Vampire, you get turned by your 14 month old child.

tatikogi

#This is fucking amazing

theriverbeyond

kittens are amazing bc they're like what if a wayward ball of lint was also made of knives

#this is beyond true #Floofy ball of lint armed with knives and teef

koobiie

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

thecheshirewingspiker

@brokenheartwithheartbreak This you? :3 (It's us, we're called out)

importantcatpics

@importantcatpics

aromantic-diaries

People act like there's an explicit line between friendship and romance like This is how Platonic Friends act and if two people act like That they are a Romantic Couple. Buddy I have crossed the line so far that it's actually surprising to me and it's still friendship

thecheshirewingspiker

EXACTLY THIS

thearvxes

Estinien's worst nightmare

thecheshirewingspiker

@brokenheartwithheartbreak

#The wheeze I had to hold back

kanamycine

TRUST ME? vol. 1

a compilation of how the beloved trust system makes me feel, and other tidbits

daily-prompts

Continuing on the theme of dreams, try this one. Start a paragraph with:

The dream is always the same.

thecheshirewingspiker

The dream is always the same. Of backs turned and flames licking hot as abyssal grief screams in her chest. It's always the same, when memories she wishes were better left forgotten appear with razor sharp teeth and a smug satisfaction in her fear. There is nothing different in this dream. Only the people she loves and is terrified to lose with their backs turned. Leaving her once again because she can't erase what she hates about herself even though it is written in her DNA. She always wakes with a jolt of disoriented fear, confusion and self loathing. The hatred she has because the dream is always the same. It is always dying, crushed hope.

beardedmrbean

Sometimes there is a loneliness that only comes when logic and love understand completely, but you feel neglected regardless.

#Do you *see* me?#Please let me know you still care about the small things #Nothing in particular

redstonedust

ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

thecheshirewingspiker

I would desperatly love this so goddamn much