large white ruff around neck; long white leggings (Zoo; 2008-10-21)
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Bearded Vulture
Gypeatus barbatus
Native Range:
Eurasia and Africa
Notes:
a huge and impressive carrion eater that lives and breeds on crags in high mountains; specializes on eating the marrow from bones, which it often cracks open by dropping the bones from great heights onto the rocks far below; also takes live prey on occasion; reaches maturity at about five years of age and can live for as long as four decades or more; no sexual dimorphism.
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