EGYPTIAN VULTURE

By Jake Smith pd. 7

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The Egyptian Vulture is an ostrich eggs with stones, making

endangered species in the them one of the few animals
Chordata phylum and in the class known to use tools. the food
Aves. Traits that the Aves class chain, they are decomposers
have are that they are because they eat dead
endothermic, they are bipedal, organisms. There small beaks
they are vertebrates, and they lay help them get to meat that large
eggs. Its close relatives are any vultures couldn’t get to. Like all
kind of bird, but mainly other birds, its reproduction is sexual
vultures. They are found in and it lays eggs. The main
Southern Europe, Northern Africa, reason for its endangerment is http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/
and in Southwestern Asia. It nests the drug NSAID that is used in commons/f/fd/Neophron_percnopterus.JPG
in rocky cliffs, usually inaccessible veterinary medicine and enters
by humans or predators. Egyptian the food chain of the vulture. In
Vultures are scavengers so they 2007 it was on the IUCN Red
look for dead animals to feed off of List. Some laws have been
which is what they do for most of passed for their protection, but
the day. One of their most famous the use of the NSAD drug is still
traits is their ability to break open widespread.
sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_vulture
http://www.oiseaux-birds.com/article-egyptian-vulture.html
http://www.willamette.edu/cla/classics/Aristophanes/EgyptianVulture.html
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commons/4/47/Egyptian_vulture.jpg

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