Vulture pyrenees Griffin Vulture

Hello Evie., I never said that the hiker was alive ... He was dead when the vultures have taken ... It was in the Ossau valley, there is an article .. But the vultures attack the living, the weak, the sick, and as Kim says, humans in extreme cases when they are hungry ... And we did not know what state we were flying over the four .. And I was afraid for the dog ... Three-meter wingspan, it's still scary .. Friends have seen attack newborn calves and even mothers .. So we ... : 11: Friends, Julie.

What makes us afraid, Julie, is that may come to harm attributed to the vulture exaggerated as it was done in the past unfair to the wolf ... : 9: How many were murdered simply because of irrational panic? : 11: When you read the articles we read, nothing is really proven,: 7: the evidence is not reliable, we will send you visited links, I would like you then we will give your opinion ... : 14:

Evie, we mean well ... The vulture is a scavenger as another species not more aggressive than another, we do agree ... any species but hungry and you will see changes in their gene .. All life must be nourished and will therefore find it .. There have been examples of cannibalism in humans including, for example when the accident of long-range in the Andes ... They made a movie, but the story is true ... The vulture is currently in the Pyrenees is starving because of the rendering plants ... This is not a myth nor a taboo ... It's the same .. Men have come to eat others to survive ... It is not at all a fabrication of our common .. This is a big problem that the region is currently reviewing to readmit elements herds died in the mountains ... This is not about to exterminate them all, they are super protected instead .. Biz, Julie.

Hello FMDV ... I assure you that where we were, they were far from being afraid of us ... Maybe you're in an area where they are fed, they will not be aggressive ... IIci is known, moreover, the common talk of leaving the corpses of new herds in place because the vultures from the law, many are starving and attacking the living ... They are many, many ... While the sick animals and infants in the first, but you never know .. It was seen yorks carried by birds of prey ... Sincerely, thank you for your testimony .. : 6:

Hi, I live in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques, basque country, and these vultures man-eating stories make me smile... The vulture is a scavenger and his head and beak are to search a carrion (look at the shape of the beak) and in no case to kill... Second to none for its greenhouses. This bird is unable to raise a prey... More il be whether, as the population of vultures to control following the food... If they are not carrion, they migrate... This is also what they did when the Spanish mass graves have farms and that is why they are arrived in number on our mountains...

Dear Julie, thank you for your answer. In flight, they are not afraid of course, especially the young who are curious, as in many species, but posed, is something else. So trying to shoot almost posed. To do this kind of photo, or you have to be in a zoo or in a watch or it is necessary to deal with a bird malnourished and weakened ... And the vultures are not different from one end to another in the Pyrenees. You really can be reassured. Friendly. Françoise.

But where do you get this stuff ? The vultures are not dangerous to humans ?

In general, vultures are actually not dangerous to humans, but when they find no food, this is fortunately quite rare, they will not hesitate to tackle the man. I am a falconer and working regularly with them I know them very well, they are beautiful birds and I love them but they are extremely dangerous.

Thank you Kim a thousand times for coming to my aid, because I no longer knew how to convince people...
That all the skeptics come on-site to listen to the shepherds... and then again, this is not for us that we have been afraid, but for the dog...
Huge 4 vultures in circling, descending lower and lower above us...
A battalion of predators impressive, and as soon as we tied the bitch, they have taken over the altitude..

the vulture is a scavenger, that's for sure, but hunger can change behaviors...

Thanks again K
Kim, for your professional knowledge...

I went in the mountains, a few days ago... We stopped, and we went down to the car to watch a flight of nine vultures, which were flying very low... We have observed a good time, and we do nothing happened... For me, it is an aberration to say that the vulture is dangerous for the man... Check first on its way of life and its reproduction...