They found that social foraging strategies are overall more beneficial than non-social strategies, but that environmental conditions such as vulture and carcass densities greatly influence which ...

The absence of vultures led to a doubling of fly populations at carcass sites, which could affect human health, since these flies can carry diseases like botulism and anthrax, and antibiotic ...

Initial investigations revealed that poachers used a cable snare to trap the elephant and then laced the carcass with poison. This toxic act caused devastating consequences when vultures fed on ...

In May 2025, one of South Africa’s worst mass vulture poisoning events occurred in South Africa’s Kruger National Park. A single elephant carcass laced with poison killed 116 vultures ...

Vultures are often seen as unsightly outcasts in the animal kingdom, yet their dirty work is needed to keep ecosystems healthy. New research has shown that without these underappreciated scavengers, ...

The Crystal Cross fishing access site on the Yellowstone River near the mouth of Yankee Jim Canyon has been temporarily closed as a grizzly bear was seen feeding on a carcass at the site.

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The animal was then poisoned, resulting in the deaths of 123 vultures that fed on its carcass. While the elephant’s tusks were not removed, officials have condemned the act as a serious ...