My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.

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[–] 31 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Sorry that's fucking gross. OP wants to walk through a world of rotting meat and unscavenged carcasses. Seriously. Read up on what happened to vultures in India when they gave all their cattle Diclofenac.

Cultures might not be pretty but they are fucking awesome and entirely necessary. Why peeps gotta hate on the cleaning staff I don't know.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

    How decline of Indian vultures led to 500,000 human deaths

    Also vultures are beautiful.

    My sweet girl Zsa Zsa.

    And there is the King Vulture.

    Bearded Vulture

    Egyptian Vulture

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    King Vulture looks like a kid coloured it, just pure chaos.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Bearded vultures swallow bones, often shattered after they drop them onto rocks from great heights, but sometimes whole. They are so badass.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Yeah, I think culturally we just don't like things that remind us of dead things, and if a lot of scavengers are around, it means something's dead or about to be.

    I'm glad people are coming around to realizing how essential (and honestly really cool) they are, as much as I'd never wanna kiss or even smell one. 😉

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    I agree, but got different reasons.

    OP went with "less paranoic" as their barrier of choice, whereas the "tick" and "mosquito" choices are actual posts that are dangerous.

    Personally I fall in the mosquito camp. I don't know if anything depending on them specifically. And even if there is, I'm ok with sacrificing them too.

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