Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Vultures in the Indian subcontinent dropped from a thriving ...
From Spider-Man’s arch-nemesis, The Vulture, in Spider-Man: Homecoming, to the cackling vultures in Disney’s 1937 version of Snow White, or the villainous Vlad Vladikoff from Dr Seuss’ Horton Hears a ...
With their long, featherless necks and stern-looking faces, vultures are an easy target for people’s fear and loathing. In books and films, they usually appear as a forewarning of bad things to come.
For centuries, hooded vultures in West Africa have lived in close association with people in towns and cities. The vultures’ dependence on scraps thrown out has grown in line with the overhunting of ...