It is a strange, discordant sound to hear coming from a bird with a wingspan of nearly three meters (10 feet)—a guttural cackle that echoes across the plains, signaling dominance over a meal.

Their stomach acid is exceptionally corrosive, with a pH close to 0 or 1. This allows them to digest rotten meat and neutralize dangerous pathogens that would kill any other animal. Without the Jackass Vulture and its cousins, the African plains would be littered with rotting, disease-ridden carcasses, posing a massive threat to all other wildlife—and humans.

Jackass Vulture

It is a strange, discordant sound to hear coming from a bird with a wingspan of nearly three meters (10 feet)—a guttural cackle that echoes across the plains, signaling dominance over a meal.

Their stomach acid is exceptionally corrosive, with a pH close to 0 or 1. This allows them to digest rotten meat and neutralize dangerous pathogens that would kill any other animal. Without the Jackass Vulture and its cousins, the African plains would be littered with rotting, disease-ridden carcasses, posing a massive threat to all other wildlife—and humans. jackass vulture

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