Vulture Portrait
by Penny Lisowski
Title
Vulture Portrait
Artist
Penny Lisowski
Medium
Photograph - Color Photographs
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Wildlife ONE A DAY- 07/12/2013
Found this vulture in the Everglades posing. He is almost pretty but he not only eats dead animals but is a menace to cars. Vultures, never popular with the public, are now developing a taste for the cars of visitors traveling to the Florida Everglades.
Several videos uploaded onto YouTube capture what looks like a new addition to the food chain rubber car parts, being chewed by vultures. But they aren't actually eating the rubber parts at all.
"They're perfecting a skill that they need to survive, Magill said.
He explained that the rubber is the same texture as a dead animals skin.
The vulture needs to get into that skin to get into the innards, to the goodies, sort of speak, Magill said.
Steven Hammer shot video of a family of vultures around an unlikely dinner table a gray truck during his last trip to the Everglades about two years ago.
"You see signs that say birds might rip up your car, that's just kind of strange, said Hammer, who is an assistant professor at Indian River State College.
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May 26th, 2013
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Carla Parris
These guys are intriguing and revolting to me, all at the same time (and they do fulfill an important clean up role). This is a superb image! Wonderful detail and clarity. He almost looks noble, but still in a disgusting sort of way. v and tw
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