Vulture

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Vulture offers a concise history and enlightening new view of this much-misunderstood bird. Vultures vary in type and size, and while some have a diet consisting of bone, others have gone almost completely vegetarian. Inside human communities, vultures have occupied predictable roles such as disposing of the dead and officiating over human sacrifices, but they have just as often been viewed as courageous and noble creatures, indispensable in the containment of waste and disease, world creators and divine mothers.

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"More nonfiction from the . . . animal series . . . but for the dark of heart."-- "Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy"

Author Bio

Thom van Dooren is an environmental anthropologist and philosopher based in Sydney, Australia. He has published a number of articles concerning flora and fauna extinction and conservation, some of which have appeared in the Cultural Studies Review, Science as Culture and the Australian Humanities Review.