Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/03/24

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Subject: [Leica] Not for the 'delicate'
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 12:08:03 +0530
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Actually, I doubt whether they got anything - these Ruppell's Griffon
Vultures cannot open up a carcass' hide, only one species can in these
grasslands - the Lappet-faced or Nubian Vulture, also the largest
vultures in Africa. So the others always wait for a Lappet-faced to
show up, which it will do at some point.

Cheers
Jayanand


On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:17 AM, afirkin <afirkin at afirkin.com> wrote:
> Here is a series of how you eat a Zebra when you can't "open" his skin.
>
> Eying off the access
>
> http://tinyurl.com/mau36ot
>
> Lining it up
>
> http://tinyurl.com/md4uj6u
>
>
> and pow: into the hilt
>
> http://tinyurl.com/k46s7m5
>
> Vultures feeding on the dead carcass of a zebra. The death was "natural", 
> so
> there was no external damage to the victim, so they began eating him from 
> the
> inside out. This explains why this type of vulture had no feathers on his 
> head
> and neck!!!!
>
> Cheers
>
> Alastair
>
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Replies: Reply from afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin) ([Leica] Not for the 'delicate')
In reply to: Message from kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney) ([Leica] PESO: 1930)
Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin) ([Leica] Close encounters of the hairy kind)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Close encounters of the hairy kind)
Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin) ([Leica] Close encounters of the hairy kind)
Message from afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin) ([Leica] Not for the 'delicate')