Vultures eat woman's body in 50 minutes after fall off cliff [protected species in France]

Reuters ^ | May 7, 2013 | Enrique Calvo

[LurkedLongEnough]

Major Didier Pericou told The Times of Europe, "When we first went out in the helicopter looking for the body, we saw numerous vultures without realizing what they were doing."

Pericou added that the incident has reignited calls from local farmers to allow hunting of the birds. The Times reported that Pyrénéan farmers have been demanding the right to shoot the birds, known as Griffon Vultures, because they've been attacking sheep and cows.

But the species is protected in France and has lost access to its normal diet of carcasses due to European health and safety regulations.

[llevrok]

Liberals eat America’s body in 5 years.
Same thing

[Theoria]

'Hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms.'

Zoroastrians, use a Dakhma, or 'tower of silence' for their dead.

Basically, they drop off their dead, the vultures, crows, and other carrion eaters clean up up the rest.

[IMR 4350]

Some years we get buzzards so bad there will be close to 100 circling over a cow off by herself looking for a place to calf.

[NormsRevenge]

regulating nature can be a messy affair.

[Izzy Dunne]

great interest in my chickens when I put them out in their tractor.

Your chickens have a tractor?

[Uncle Miltie]

"I'll peck your bones clean!"

[NonValueAdded]

And they were looking for a solution to disposing the body of the Boston Massacre II bomber ...

[SampleMan]

But the species is protected in France and has lost access to its normal diet of carcasses due to European health and safety regulations.

Wild animals aren't allowed to die in Europe?

[smokingfrog]

How do we know the vultures didn’t push that woman off the cliff?

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cMXcgEwZw5E/T2MZ_WI0NRI/AAAAAAAACnk/ogqM2WvJlPc/s1600/vultures-patience-my-ass.jpg

[SWAMPSNIPER]

"We saw numerous vultures without realizing what they were doing"?

LOL, what do they think vultures do, shop at meat markets?

[SampleMan]

Vultures are only interested in dead bodies and pose no risk to live animals.

Too much Animal Planet for you. Like carnivores everywhere, vultures aren't as picky as they are billed. Many vulture species are quite willing and certainly capable of killing in order to eat. New born animals that are slow to get moving fall into their meal plan.

[MrB]

Yep...

OR

Take your pick

[varmintman]

Remember that the BlackCloud shells need a skeet choke, anything more than that could damage a gun.

[JPG]

In the regular order, vultures eat dead animals. If the French now demand that the dead animals be buried...well, the vultures still have to eat. Good lesson for all the econuts: Don't mess with Mother Nature.

[BarbM]

Uncle Miltie,
You are suspose to WARN us b4 posting any of Helen Thomas’ photos.

I spit food all over my deks.

[Ditter]

>>>”pose no danger to live animals”>>>>

That is not true. When we have calves born in the pasture, vultures will come for the afterbirth and finish off the calf by first pecking their eye balls out. My husband shoots every one he can. Usually just shooting at them will make them move on to the next pasture, They are not stupid.

[Jonty30]

Fair enough, but it’s not helping to cut down on easily accessible dead animals.

[null and void]

Vultures are only interested in dead bodies and pose no risk to live animals.

The farmers are reporting seeing them harass and kill livestock.

A species needs to eat.

Indeed.

[MNDude]

“Ugh, nasty. Imagine having to clean up the remainders. “

Considering it took only 50 minutes, it doesn’t sound like they shared that opinion.