[TigerLikesRooster]

With so many of these heavy, ungainly birds in the sky, pilots taking off from Delhi's airports lived in constant fear of vultures smashing into their engines.

Flight safety is vastly improved. Dramatically reduced chances of bird strike.

So what is the enviro's plan if they cannot get their way? Introducing hyenas in place of vultures instead?

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[CrawDaddyCA]

The new Envirowacko battlecry: Save the vultures!!

[ApplegateRanch]

If they ate beef, they wouldn't need so many vultures to eat carcasses in the dump.

OTOH, if they treated the cows' dieseases, instead of pumping them full of pain killers to disguise the symptoms, the cows would live longer AND the vultures wouldn't be getting poisoned.

[neverdem]

bump & a ping

I wonder what going on. Are cow owners giving diclofenac to all of the lame, and the stuff doesn't get sufficiently metabolized before they die of old age?

[A. Goodwin]

There's an interesting consequence to the decline of vultures - the religious beliefs of the Parsis require that dead bodies be exposed above ground so the flesh can be removed by vultures (IIRC earth, fire, and water are considered sacred elements that shouldn't be defiled by decaying flesh). The decline in vultures has forced them to alter their practices.