Buzzards don't chirp -- they buzz!

[moribundman]

Oh gross!

 

[MarkC]

Chrip?

 

[moribundman]

So I'm dyslexic.

 

[MarkC]

I understand the desire for scientifc study, but what ever happened to respecting the dead and giving them proper burials or cremations, no matter who they were? Body farms, plasticized cadavers on diplay...?
Maybe it's not much different thatn exhibiting the taxidermied bodies of animals in museums, I guess, or diging up ancient Egyptians.

 

[Lonnie]

They don't buzz either, they hissssss.

 

[moribundman]

Can we agree on them being nasty peckers?

 

[MarkC]

Just doing their job.

 

[moribundman]

Their roadside manners are horrible.

 

[Shannow]

It's an accepted way of treating the dead in India I think. A walled area where the sacred vultures get to feast.

 

[Lonnie]

I patched up a turkey vulture and he was the most alert and curious bird I've ever been around. I kept him in the garage, in the rafters until he was healty enough to fly. He never gave me any problems but at first he would hiss and snap at me. I hear they spit but he never did. A guy from the San Diego Zoo gave me the medicine and the syringe and some pills. He got better and I turned him loose. I got over his less than plesant looks because of his curious personality. He liked to walk back and forth under the wind turbine and sniff the air. He also discoverd if he danced around on the washing machine when it was running he would eventually hit the switch and turn it off. I had to rig it so he could not hit and after a week he gave up. In the end I don't think anyone would want one for a pet. Just to big and they smell bad.

 

[Pablo]

Ah, a jerky farm!

 

[alreadygone]

Buzzard's gotta eat, same as worms.

Bob

 

[MarkC]

Motel H3LL?

 

[Jaybird]

I've always heard that buzzards don't have a rectum, and that they regurgitate all of their excrement. True?

 

[moribundman]

No bird has a rectum. A bird has a cloaca, which is a multipurpose opening.

Many predatory birds throw up pellets of undigestible animal parts like bones an fur. I don't know if vultures, which are of course scavengers, also do that. I think they stick to the meaty parts.

 

[MarkC]

I'm proud of you, mori, for knowing what a cloaca is.
Nice to see that someone remembers elementary biology.

 

[Lonnie]

If we want to survive biological weapons we should lean how a turkey vulture's system works. They can eat all that stuff and never get sick.