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Searching for vultures in India

10,000 Birds

The tour organizer was Arpit Deomurari, whom I met on Facebook a few weeks earlier. The disappearance of vultures has allowed other species such as rat and [stray] dog populations to grow. A vulture’s metabolism is a true “dead-end” for pathogens, but dogs and rats become carriers of the pathogens.

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