What is Vulture?
{{Taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|3.6|0|[[Miocene]] – Recent}}<ref>{{cite web|url= http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=105599|title= Fossilworks:Aegypiinae|publisher= Fossilworks|access-date= September 4, 2018|archive-date= June 28, 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200628003804/http://fossilworks.org/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=105599|url-status= dead}}</ref> |name = '''Vulture''' |image = Gyps bengalensis Photograph by Shantanu Kuveskar.jpg |image_caption = White-rumped vulture in India |image2 = Coragyps-atratus-001.jpg |image2_caption = Black vulture in Panama |regnum = [[Animal]]ia |phylum = [[Chordate|Chordata]] |classis = [[Bird|Aves]] |subdivision_ranks = [[Family (biology)|Families]] |subdivision = [[Accipitridae]] ([[Aegypiinae]])<br /> [[Cathartidae]] }} [[File:Gyps fulvus01.jpg|thumb|right|A vulture]] '''Vultures''' are large [[bird]]s of prey that usually feed on the [[carrion]] or (dead or dying animals and rocks). Vultures use their large [[wing]]s to soar in the air for many miles without having to flap. Vultures are also called buzzards. ''Vultures'' from the Old World ([[Europe]], [[Asia]], and [[Africa]]) are not related to the vultures of the New World (North and South [[The Americas|America]]). They look quite similar, though. Both have [[head]]s and [[neck]]s with no [[feather]]s. ''Old World vultures'' are related to [[eagle]]s and [[hawk]]s and use [[sight]] to find their [[food]]. ''New World vultures'' use their sense of [[Olfaction|smell]] to find their food. Vultures symbolize [[death]] in [[literature]]. [[King vulture]]s use rocks to open eggs, they pick up a rock with their beak and simply drop or throw the rock onto the egg and breaks it. [[New World vulture]]s is a name which is used for a number of species in the Americas. The best known of these are probably the [[Andean condor]] and the [[black vulture]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Vultures| ]]