The extended duration of decomposition without vultures allows flies to reproduce at greater levels, causing more larvae to reach maturity. The resulting abundance of flies could then carry and spread ...

In vultures, diclofenac causes kidney failure: Autopsies reveal organs coated with white crystals. The Indian die-off received a lot of attention because its downstream effects were so startling.

In India, vulture populations collapsed by 99.9%, the sharpest decline of any animal ever recorded, in the 'Indian Vulture Crisis'. Debbie Pain and Chris Bowden describe the urgent international ...

Sudarshan, and Eyal Frank of the University of Chicago, co-authors of the upcoming American Economic Review paper, compared maps of vulture habitats to health records for more than 600 Indian ...

six captive-bred vultures of Indian resident varieties – a development which holds the key to successful wilding (hard release) of more captive-bred vultures in future. The six GPS-tagged ...

home to nine species found in the region - the Himalayan Vulture, Indian Vulture, Slender-billed Vulture, Egyptian Vulture, Red-headed Vulture, White-rumped Vulture, Griffon Vulture, Cinereous ...

The population of Gyps species – White-rumped vulture (Oriental white-backed vulture), Indian vulture (Long-billed vulture), and Slender-billed vulture – crashed during the mid-1990s ...