They have bald heads so that when they feast on carcasses, blood and guts don't get trapped in their feathers. Like many other species of vulture, these birds feed on the remains of already dead ...

They can strip a carcass clean in minutes. Blood drips from a Rüppell’s vulture’s beak as it pauses mid-meal. The neck and head of Rüppell’s are sparsely feathered, the better to keep gore ...