I don't recall ever being called a
bunny-hugger but that isn't a label that would worry me particularly. But a
vulture-hugger....mmmm...I don't think so! I've seen way too many vultures with their bald heads covered in blood and whatever else they find in the body cavities of dead animals. So I was delighted to see these images on a camera-trap that we'd set up at a small water-hole for a few days.
The early-morning shift was quiet but the water-hole soon became a popular spot for White-Backed (
Gyps africanus), Cape (
Gyps coprotheres) and Lappet-Faced (
Aegypius tracheliotos) vultures. Birds that had probably recently squabbled over bits of carrion suddenly became bathing-buddies.
So am I now a
vulture-hugger? Probably not.
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