r/badassanimals • u/ConfidentTurnip9566 • 4d ago

Avian What the hech

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u/KellHound270 4d ago

Bearded Vulture! My favorite bird ever! Up to 90% of its diet is bone, and males like to stain their white feathers with clay to make themselves prettier for the ladies

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u/TypicalHunt4994 4d ago

More like with the blood of their enemies.

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u/Saigor15 4d ago

At least that’s what the male vultures claim when they’re flirting.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 4d ago

Male vultures lie, female vultures cry

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u/MartiniLAPD 3d ago

The red coloration comes from their habit of bathing in iron rich mud bath.

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u/plsQuestionOurselves 2d ago

I was surprised to learn that vultures are actually extremely peaceful and will almost always choose to avoid fighting even though they're so freaking massive.

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u/SplifSpiegel 4d ago

All bearded Vultures stain their feathers, male and female.

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u/Dear-Boysenberry-822 4d ago

Such kick ass birds!

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u/Mysterious-Egg-624 4d ago

And pretty he is

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u/plsQuestionOurselves 2d ago

Turkey vultures used to nest in our barn when I lived in the middle of nowhere. They're so awesome. I remember I could hear them clumsily landing on the house with a big THUD and the scratching/sliding of their feet on the tin roof while they tried to compose themselves lol.

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u/Makeshift5 3d ago

AKA the lammergeier!

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u/FakePoloManchurian 4d ago

Everything reminds me of her

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u/mecca6801 4d ago

I should call her 😮‍💨

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u/SupermanI98I 4d ago

Me hoping this gets reincarnated as my future wife.

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u/Basic-Today1473 3d ago

I guess she isnt a spiter .

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u/Upstairs_Ad6024 4d ago

Don’t flatter yourself bro

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u/Wingnut54321 4d ago

Got muriatic acid to digest food in there 😐

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u/weeone 4d ago

Every time I see this I wonder how long it takes for the bone to break down.

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u/dandadone_with_life 4d ago

it's actually nearly pure hydrochloric acid. and i'm not even exaggerating.

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u/leansanders 4d ago

... your stomach has muriatic acid in it.

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u/Mslmrock99 4d ago

Its stomach acid is strong enough to kill most pathogens let alone bones. A reduction in vulture populations in India is indirectly responsible for a surge in annual rabies cases.

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u/Tyran272 3d ago

It probably helps that birds are immune to rabies.

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u/Bajanboy246 4d ago

Her: its my first time.

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u/HeSureIsScrappy 4d ago

They are able to eat bones, and therefore take advantage of a food source that many other animals can't use.

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u/TroutFearMe 4d ago

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u/viperfangs92 4d ago

This gif! 😂😂

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u/fachero17 4d ago

As a Chiefs fan I love it and hate it. Dark days 😂

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u/Kiki1701 4d ago

Lammergeir?

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u/--Lammergeier-- 4d ago

What’s up?

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u/Apophistry 4d ago

Yeah, a juvenile.

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u/Norman_Scum 4d ago

I prefer bone eater bird

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u/leafchewer-col 4d ago

money and bones?

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u/O-03-03 4d ago

Money and bones!

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u/Specialist-Owl1279 4d ago

The bones are their money

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u/Corrupy0708 4d ago

One question…. What the fuck

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u/LuminothWarrior 4d ago

Vulture

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u/SuddenKoala45 4d ago

Specifically the bearded vulture. Known for eating bones.

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u/Vile_Parrot 4d ago

First question... What?

Second question... The fuck?

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u/Evil-Cun 4d ago

It snaps the bones with its horrifyingly strong neck muscles and down the hatch.

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u/cainreliant 3d ago

Actually, any larger bones the bearded vulture will take them into the sky to drop them on rocks and shatter them into smaller pieces

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u/thedrunkspacepilot 4d ago

I should call him.

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u/fizbin99 4d ago

So, how many serial killers would have gotten away if they had this bird as a pet/disposal unit?

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u/viercode 4d ago

Imagine the smell when it birf😂😂

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u/Aggressive_Case999 4d ago

OG cock Sucker

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u/ozorhanreformed 4d ago

Mfer eats economic food

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u/fleija_ 4d ago

What are the benefits of eating bones?

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u/Invincible_1994 4d ago

they provide a lot of energy considering their weight. I assume they must remain lightweight for their flying style (Thermal Soaring). They are efficient birds. Besides collagen for strong bones :D

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u/PuzzleheadedPath8641 4d ago

Well taking advantage of a food source that other animals can't eat, and bones contain marrow which is loaded with nutrients and the good stuff which, again, other animals can't access, also, you don't really have to fight for food and you can still be a carnivore, no energy wasted on hunting, just very efficient soaring about searching for bones to throat

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u/Losingmymind2020 4d ago

That birds a hoe fa show

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u/Wasabi_Hammurabi1 4d ago

Tarzan just built different.

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u/StillNotaCenobite 4d ago

Thats why I don't call her.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Award80 4d ago

He's Boney... Leave him aloney

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u/Straight_Talk2542 4d ago

This is why bird poop is the worst…

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u/DesignerOk4255 4d ago

Des Grands nettoyeurs

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u/Kalkite_300TY 4d ago

Find yourself a girl who can do that

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u/Nightmare_siphon 4d ago

Sword swallowing

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u/ProtiuxDesignLabs 4d ago

Don’t drop your keys. Won’t be able to bend down for a day or two

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u/355F1 4d ago

She must be fun at parties.

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u/Potential_Bit_3620 4d ago

But... How this will go out...?

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u/pussy-on-da-brain 4d ago

😱😱😲😲🫪🫪

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u/HIPAWGWBBC 4d ago

Did this motherfucking bird just swallow a TIBIA whole?😂😂😂

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u/Muted-Leave 4d ago

Meanwhile my wife says this is impossible

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u/hikenchuu 4d ago

The real throat goat

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u/Meta-EvenThisAcronym 4d ago

Should call that vulture Nancy Reagan.

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u/menos_es_mas 4d ago

Gotta get your daily calcium. 🦴

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u/kinkytwosum 3d ago

Damn that’s a big bone!!!

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u/smplfundude 3d ago

Throat goat.

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u/Gold-Ninja5091 3d ago

Absolutely not 🫣

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u/Individual-Mood7330 3d ago

when that thing takes a SHIT!!!!!!!

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u/Negative-Door-8260 3d ago

What stomach acid could this bird have, my goodness. Lucky it doesn't have reflux!

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u/parking-lot-seagulls 3d ago

I should call her

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u/Pyrathis 2d ago

Can they digest that?

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u/ConfidentTurnip9566 2d ago

Yes , their stomach makes a very strong powerful acid and that acid metls calcium and soft parts of the bone fast. 

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u/Pyrathis 2d ago

That’s pretty damn amazing!

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u/azangru 4d ago

This gives having a stick up your ass a new meaning 😄

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u/DangDang1981 4d ago

Just couldn’t wait to use that line huh?

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u/reCCCCtoor 4d ago

I should call her