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(Science: ornithology) Any one of numerous species of rapacious birds belonging to Vultur, Cathartes, Catharista, and various other genera of the family Vulturidae.

In most of the species the head and neck are naked or nearly so. They feed chiefly on carrion. The condor, king vulture, turkey buzzard, and black vulture (Catharista atrata) are well known American species. The griffin, lammergeir, and Pharaoh's chicken, or egyptian vulture, are common old world vultures.

Origin: OE. Vultur, L. Vultur: cf. OF. Voltour, F. Vautour.


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Relation between Storks and New World Vultures

I think many of you could be aware of the relationship between storks and Vultures http://www.mnhn.fr/mnhn/oseb/these/resumes/avise.pdf If you have time you can read the link provided above.But you might need to know about the different computational phylogeny ...

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by David George
Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:13 pm
 
Forum: Bioinformatics
Topic: Relation between Storks and New World Vultures
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Relation between Storks and New World Vultures

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by David George
Sun Dec 14, 2008 1:12 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Relation between Storks and New World Vultures
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by mcar
Sat Nov 17, 2007 12:14 pm
 
Forum: Ecology
Topic: decomposer
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The Fiber Disease

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by Deena
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