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The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.Vultures like to roost on those big, tall metal structures.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.Vultures will rip up your windshield wipers or something.
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Lions. Who doesn't love lions?The vulture. Vultures are dying at a rate, mostly due to poisoning.
that basically eyeball size correlates with visual acuity. And that can fold in two different ways. It can be like general sharpness. Like, how well can you see a long way away?So eagles and vultures, it's really important. Or it can be good in low light.- And I now discover that there's a Nature Was Metal- ...subreddit- - On Reddit, yeah, for- - ...which is looking at-
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?And the vultures here, they had just-- this is a dead wildebeest in Serengeti in Tanzania.
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?Nobody watches vultures for 45 minutes.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.It's an upside down dead vulture with its wings out.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.But you can't really assume that vulture intelligence can kind of make that link.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.And if you hang a vulture like that, it's pretty effective for quite some time, which is hard to do with birds.
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?Nobody wants to kill a vulture.
how do you make that into something that looks a bit like this, where you've actually just extracted a small sample of that data, a really interesting part of it,just for a few seconds of a vulture flight?And you've looked at the air temperature outside, which is one of the things that we're mapping here.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.But it reliably repels large groups of vultures from roosting where you don't want them to roost.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.And it did keep the vultures away.
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?I bet you didn't know vultures, some species of vultures have declined by 90% in three generations in Africa.
Tell us about what was going through your head, your heart, during that time, and what you describe as being somewhateaten alive by the media vultures of the time.Just take us back then.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.from this book about guidelines for using effigies to disperse nuisance vultures.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.And there was a place down in the Everglades where vultures started doing this like coming into the parking lot and attacking people's
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?90%. Vultures are now a threatened species.
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?Why is that? Who wants to kill a vulture?
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?So you'll think twice now the next time you see a vulture.
Yeah. What should the startup be?So if you have a VC, a vulture capitalist-- sorry, venture capitalist-- don't believe their shit.
It's kind of a mission control for animal data.Here we have a couple of minutes of data from a circling vulture that they've attached a tag to.So you can see, there's all kinds of different senses that they've crammed into this small device now-- accelerometers, magnetometers, GPS.
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millionsproperly scary ones, say hawks and eagles and vultures and so on, they pale in comparison to some of the extreme eccentric extinct birds that once lived. And I'm talking about things
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?Another big problem in Africa people aren't aware of too much is vultures.
they're playing golf with their fellow pension fund officer.therefore I will go out and I'll kind of like a a bit of a vulture, I'll go out and pick up
Another part of the book is about the investors, how the great investors act and what they look for.Of course, I hear so many times venture capitalists, vulture capitals, whatever, and then what kind of deal are they offering.This book is about the kind of deal they really offer.
Remember when we were rehearsing and you and E.J. were in the ballpark, right?Because now they're becoming celebrities and then the press was just-- some of them just plain vultures.
"So confusing in so many subtle variants.It's cool to love roller coasters, but hard to love vultures.One may love fudge, but hate brownie eaters.
I joked-- I wrote in the book one time about how I had one really bad night where I was trying to land.Three times I came in to land, and each time I had vultured, which means when you hit the deck, the hookeither bounces-- or that's the excuse you like to say.
They would write these dispatches that would say, what was it, oh okay, that after theTexan war, after one battle, that the vultures or buzzards, they wouldn’t eat the corpses of dead Mexican soldiers because Mexicans eat chili pepper and if the vultures wouldeat their corpses they would die because their flesh was so spicy and so filled with peppers that they would die.
global memory, of Africa.Because to this day, people still remember the pictures and the images of the child who is bent over while a vulture standsright next to the child waiting for the child to die.
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.Effigies, so weird. OK, effigies, an effigy is like a human effigy, a vulture effigy is you take a dead vulture.
He took a very iconic picture of this kid-- this is a really sad story, sorry-- about this kid crawling toward an aid station, and there was this vulture
You get, for example, a depiction of a headless body, or a vulture, or a bucranium, which is a bull's head.
And all the bite marks are on one bone, the humerus, the upper arm bone.scavenger, I mean, the true scavengers, like the vultures and condors and stuff like this, you have to be ultra-long distance, very energy-efficient travelers. They're
The rats, I mean, they got off the ships, looked around.But they stopped doing it because what happened is that the park ranger spent all day reassuring freaked out visitors, explaining why there are dead vultures hanging
When I went on my first procurement, I was really nervous, because I did feel like we were like vultures going to take pieces
Lions. Who doesn't love lions?This is why so much energy is being put into Africa right now to mitigate human wildlife conflict, because of species like vultures, who are dying as innocent bystanders, basically.
And at the end, they're lying there, a corpse with their chest open as if vultures had been there.
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