Vultures and their people in India: equity and entanglement in a time of extinctions. [Paper in: Unloved Others: Death of the Disregarded in the Time of Extinctions. Rose, Deborah Bird and van Dooren, Thom (eds)]

• Published in: Australian humanities review Vol. 50; no. 50; pp. 45 - 61
• Main Author: van Dooren, Thom
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bundoora Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) 01.05.2011
• Subjects: Animals; Birds; Collaboration; Endangered & extinct species; Endangered species; Food; Hinduism; Human body; India: Culture; Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs; Parsee communities; Pathogens; Poisoning; Religion; Scavenging birds; Society; Southeast Asia; India

[...]Ruxton and Houston have even argued that it may have been in the development of the large body size and specialisations for efficient soaring flight that are so essential to being a successful avian scavenger, that vultures lost the flying accuracy, agility and manoeuvrability necessary to kill...