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English: Vulture Stone, Gobekli Tepe, Sanliurfa, South-east Anatolia, Turkey The Vulture Stone is thought to be the world's first pictograph. It depicts a human head in the wing of a vulture and a headless human body under the stela. There are various figures like cranes and scorpions around this figure.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 17 February 2025. Marvel Comics fictional character Comics character Vulture The Vulture as seen in interior artwork from The Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1 (October 1964). Art by Steve Ditko. Publication information Publisher Marvel Comics First appearance Isidoro Scarlotti: Young Men #26 (December 1953 ...
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The Stele of the Vultures is a monument from the Early Dynastic IIIb period (2600–2350 BC) in Mesopotamia celebrating a victory of the city-state of Lagash over its neighbour Umma.
The lappet-faced vulture or Nubian vulture (Torgos tracheliotos) is an Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It is the only member of the genus Torgos .
A vulture is a bird of prey that scavenges on carrion. There are 23 extant species of vulture (including condors ). [ 2 ] Old World vultures include 16 living species native to Europe , Africa , and Asia ; New World vultures are restricted to North and South America and consist of seven identified species, all belonging to the Cathartidae family .
In October 2015, it was further uplisted to Critically Endangered because the decline had reach a magnitude that puts the vulture at an extreme risk of extinction. [1] The population size of the white-backed vulture has been decreasing significantly within the past few decades. In 1992, the population was estimated at 270,000.
The vulture's tongue is rasp-like, which allows it to pull flesh off of the carcass's bones. [33] Generally, it only eats the skin and harder parts of the tissue of its meal. [48] The king vulture has also been recorded eating fallen fruit of the moriche palm when carrion is scarce in Bolívar state, Venezuela. [56]