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Lappet-faced Vulture
| Lappet-faced Vulture | ||||||||||||||
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| Trogos tracheliotus |
It is not closely related to the superficially similar New World vultures, and does not share that group’s good sense of smell.
It is a scavenging bird, feeding mostly from carcasses of dead animals which it finds by sight.
Like many vultures, it has a bald head. This is because a feathered head would become spattered with blood and other fluids, and thus be difficult to keep clean.
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