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	De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust, North West Province, South Africa
		Vultures have always evoked strong emotions from people; from being seen as symbols of divine qualities, clairvoyant whereby they are able to ‘see’ into the future to being misunderstood and called ‘ugly, disease riddled’ birds.
		Vultures have for years been persecuted and misunderstood by many, it is for this reason that they are continuously declining at a rapid rate.
		Vultures are victims of irresponsible poison use and to-date, this has led to the disappearance of vultures and other birds of prey from around southern Africa.
	www.dewildt.org.za /vultureuniteducation.htm (996 words)

	Palm nut Vulture: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		...Palm nut Vulture Palm nut Vulture The Palm-nut Vulture, Gypohierax angolensis...is resident.
		The Palm-nut Vulture, Gypohierax angolensis, is an Old World vulture in the order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks.
		This species has a unique diet for a bird of prey: it feeds largely on the husk of oil palm[?] nuts.
	www.encyclopedian.com /pa/Palm-nut-vulture.html (279 words)

	The 'bird of prey' that's not
		Known as the 'palm nut vulture', it feeds almost exclusively on the fleshy outer portions (husk) of the fruit of the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), or, less frequently, Raphia palm (Raphia spp.).
		The palm nut vulture's distinct preference for oil palm and Raphia fruit, only turning to crabs, molluscs, etc., when its favoured vegetarian fare is unavailable, perhaps helps us understand how many animal and bird species first turned to carnivory after the Fall.
		Unlike most carrion-eating vultures, which usually are bare on the head and neck except for a thin covering of down (probably a distinct asset when extracting meat from a rotting carcass), the palm nut vulture is unfeathered only in the area around the eyes, and a streak running aft from the base of the bill.
	www.answersingenesis.org /creation/v23/i1/vultures.asp (874 words)

	Palm oil of Malaysia
		Palm oil is a form of edible vegetable oil obtained from the fruit of the Oil palm tree.
		Both palm and palm kernel oil are high in olefins, a potentially valuable chemical group that can be processed into many non-food products as well.
		Palm and other tropical oils are thus reemerging partly because they are cheap and partly because more recent research appears to show that they may not all be as bad as once thought.
	www.etawau.com /OilPalm/PalmOil.htm (984 words)

	birds template (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vultures are birds of prey that feed mainly on dead animals.
		The king vulture is Sarcoramphus papa; the California condor, Gymnogyps californianus; and the Andean condor, Vultur gryphus.
		The cinereous vulture is Aegypius monachus; the lammergeier, Gypaetus barbatus; the Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus; the white-headed vulture, Trigonoceps occipitalis; and the palm nut vulture is Gypohierax angolensis.
	www.worldbook.com /features/birds/html/types_prey_vulture.html (648 words)

	Raphia australis
		The palms at Mtunzini station are a declared National Monument, and at least part of the Kosi population is within a nature reserve.
		These palms are dramatic accents in parks and large gardens, but are not suitable for containers or confined areas, as they are far too large for small gardens.
		A witty comment in a horticultural description of a fishtail palm suggested that the latter make ideal street trees as they grow, flower and die within twenty years, which is about the usual length of time between renovations of the street layout.
	www.plantzafrica.com /plantqrs/raphiaaust.htm (1222 words)

	Vultures
		Vultures are scavenging birds, feeding mostly on the carcasses of dead animals.
		New World vultures and condors are not at all closely related to the superficially similar Accipitridae, but belong in the family Cathartidae, which is quite close to the storks.
		The vulture population in India has declined by up to 95% recently and two or three of the species of vulture in South Asia are nearing extinction.
	www.avianweb.com /vultures.htm (538 words)

	Oil palm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Oil palms are grown for their clusters of fruit, which can weigh 40-50 kg.
		For each hectare of Oil palm, which is harvested year-round, the annual production averages 10 tonnes of fruit, which yields 3,000 kg of pericarp oil, and 750 kg of seed kernels, which yield 250 kg of high quality palm kernel Oil as well as 500 kg of kernel meal.
		Its high nutritional value means that the palm nut is eaten by a wide variety of animals, including, rather improbably, two birds of prey, the Palm Nut Vulture and the Harrier Hawk.
	oil-palm.iqnaut.net (444 words)

	Welcome to South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Vultures like to sit down to a good meal, but unlike other animals they are quite specific about what’s on the menu.
		Pretty soon, the vulture population had a new lease on life and the vulture restaurant concept became the norm for conservationists and farmers.
		The Vulture Study Group* was besieged by people wanting to watch the vultures feed and as a result, the vulture restaurant concept went mainstream with major benefits to a number of parties.
	www.southafrica.net /index.cfm?sitepageID=14547 (698 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Palm-nut Vulture
		The Palm-nut Vulture (Gypohierax angolensis) is a very large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as kites, buzzards and harriers.
		This bird is an Old World vulture, and is not related to the New World vultures which are in a separate family, Cathartidae.
		This vulture gets its name from its favourite food, which, uniquely for a bird of prey, is not meat, but the nut of the Oil Palm.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Palm-nut_Vulture (288 words)

	VULTURES and CONDORS
		It takes three years for a young Palm-nut Vulture to gain its full adult colouring and until this time it will be varying shades of brown, with fl primary feathers.
		The Palm-nut Vulture has several high-pitched, whistling calls used during copulation or territory defence; it can also produce a quacking similar to that of a duck.
		Though this bird only has a very small territory, it is not necessary for there to be a water supply nearby as the birds obtain liquid from the fruit of oil-palm, which also provides their primary food.
	www.lairweb.org.nz /vulture/palm.html (382 words)

	Silflay Hraka: Canary In The Coal Mine
		African vultures are members of the Accipitridae, the Old World Vultures, as opposed to the vultures we find in the Americas, the Cathartidae, or (of course) New World Vultures.
		The vulture populations in India have already collapsed due to the widespread use of the livestock medicine diclofenac, but the drug is not in widespread use in Africa, so it is unlikely to have been much of a factor in the population decline of the various vulture species there.
		However, there is another virus deadly enough to account for the steep decline in the African vulture population; the avian flu, which in its more virulent form has a very high mortality indeed.
	www.silflayhraka.com /archives/2006/07/canary_in_the_coal_mine.html (813 words)

	Resources on Palm-nut Vulture academic institutions
		Oil from the nuts on palm trees are the palm nut vulture's main food.
		palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis) noun, pl palm-nut vultures, tumbusi miwese 9/10an, pl tumbusi miwese.
		ADW: Gypohierax angolensis: Classification: Gypohierax angolensis (palm-nut vulture).
	www.mongabay.org /conservation/MR/Palm-nut_Vulture.htm (417 words)

	Turkey Vulture Facts
		When the vulture is eating carrion, it must often stick its head inside the carcass to reach the meat.
		The turkey vulture nests on the ground and in caves.
		Its purpose is to promote scientific studies of the life habits and needs of the Turkey Vulture, to protect the vulture and its habitat, and to inform the public of the valuable and essential services this bird provides to mankind and to the environment.
	vulturesociety.homestead.com /TVFacts.html (2833 words)

	Palm-nut Vulture, Gypohierax angolensis
		Despite its name the Palm-nut Vulture probably isn't a vulture at all.
		When feeding on palm fruit they hang upside down below the fruit, pull it off the tree with their beaks and then hold it in their feet to eat it.
		The Palm-nut Vultures have developed the habit of hanging below the branch, using their palm fruit technique to enable them to pull off strips of meat.
	www.kenyabirds.org.uk /vult-pn.htm (245 words)

	English-Swahili Dictionary
		Egyptian vulture, pl Egyptian vultures { Swahili: tumbusi uso-njano, pl tumbusi uso-njano } [Terminology: ornithology]
		RÃ¼ppell's griffon vulture, pl RÃ¼ppell's griffon vultures { Swahili: tumbusi mbuga, pl tumbusi mbuga } [Terminology: ornithology]
		vulture, pl vultures { Swahili: tumbusi, pl tumbusi } [Terminology: ornithology]
	research.yale.edu /swahili/serve_files/browse/e/V/a3.htm (3122 words)

	Vulture Movies
		A particular characteristic of many vultures is a bald head, devoid of feathers.
		This is likely because a feathered head would become spattered with blood and other fluids, and thus be difficult to keep clean.
		An immature feeding on carrion amongst Whitebacked Vultures.
	www.junglewalk.com /video/Vulture-movie.htm (362 words)

	Old World vulture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Old World vultures belong to the family Accipitridae, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks.
		They are not at all closely related to the superficially similar New World vultures and condors, and do not share that group's good sense of smell.
		This is because a feathered head would become spattered with blood and other fluids, and thus be difficult to keep clean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_World_vulture (173 words)

	Veggie Vulture - Travel Africa Magazine
		The palm-nut vulture (Gypohierax angolensis), like the giant panda, is that strange oxymoron of nature: a vegetarian carnivore.
		This smallish vulture, thought by some authorities to be more closely related to the African fish eagle, eschews the pleasures of the flesh in favour of the tough nut of the raffia palm (Raphia australis).
		Palm-nut vultures are found in coastal regions throughout sub-Saharan Africa wherever there are stands of raffia or oil palms.
	www.travelafricamag.com /content/view/1288/72 (288 words)

	Palm-nut Vulture ( Gypohierax angolensis fam. Accipitridae) Kruger Park Birds & Birding. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Palm-nut Vulture is neither Endemic or near Endemic to the Kruger National Park.
		The Palm-nut Vulture is monogamous unless its mate dies.
		The preferred habitats for Palm-nut Vulture are: woodlands and grasslands and riverine areas.
	www.thekruger.com /knpbirds/gypohieraxangolensis.htm (619 words)

	Eagles of the World - baldeagleinfo.com
		Their diet is heavily weighted, as one would guess from their name, in favor of fish, which may be taken alive or as carrion.
		However one bird sometimes placed in this group, the vulturine fish eagle, is a near-vegetarian, dining almost exclusively on the fruit of the oil palm.
		(This bird is also called the palm-nut vulture; it appears to be somewhere between fish eagles and vultures in both anatomy and diet.) Other members of this group include the bald eagle, the African fish eagle, and the white-tailed sea eagle.
	www.baldeagleinfo.com /eagle/eagle6.html (1228 words)

	Urban Bird Studies
		Compare this to some of the Old World vulture species which are 4 feet long and have wingspans of up to 10 feet.
		Originally, the American vultures were listed in the Order Falconiformes but ornithologists now think they are more closely related to storks than to hawks.
		Females and males are similar in size among hawks and vultures that eat dead animals (carrion).
	www.birds.cornell.edu /programs/urbanbirds/BirdGuide/ubs_UBPBirdGuideHawksEN.html (378 words)

	Vulture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The vulture found in Africa is called the Egyptian vulture.
		Other vultures found in Africa are also called white-headed vultures and palm nut vultures.
		It drops stones at it with its beak to break the egg.
	kalama.doe.hawaii.edu /~laakea/TeamA/vulture.htm (68 words)

	Palm-nut Vulture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It breeds in forest and savannah across sub-Saharan Africa, usually near water, its range coinciding with that of the Oil Palm.
		The immature, which takes 5 years to mature, is brown with a yellow eye patch.
		A single egg is incubated in a bulky stick nest in a tree for about six weeks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palm-nut_Vulture (317 words)

	Resources on Bearded Vulture academic institutions
		Bird Bibliography Part 2: A study of the bearded vulture Gypaetus barbatus in southern Africa.
		Hatching asynchrony, sibling aggression and cannibalism in the bearded vulture
		OPTED v0.03 Letter L: It is supposed to be the ossifrage of the Bible.
	mongabay.org /conservation/Bearded_Vulture.htm (582 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Australasian Raptor Association was established in 1979 to promote the study, conservation and management of diurnal and nocturnal birds of prey (raptors) throughout Australasia.
		The Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus) is one of the rarest raptors in Europe.
		According to Pliny, Aeschylus was supposed to have been killed by a missile dropped by a lammergeier that mistook his bald head for a rock.
	fatbirder.com /species_and_families/non_passerines/accipitridae.html (1384 words)

	Hawk & eagle page
		Yet another entire set of species make up the Old World vultures (these prove to be unrelated to New World vultures which are actually modified storks; see my New World Vulture page).
		Among the Old World vultures is a "vulture" that eats palmnuts instead of carrion, and has a truly striking flight pattern, the Palm-nut Vulture of tropical Africa (lower row above, right).
		This brief survey has focused primarily on the major subgroups of hawks and eagles, but over half of the present genera (36 out of 64) are monotypic (Thiollay 1994).
	www.montereybay.com /creagrus/hawks.html (2087 words)

	Meru National Park \| CC Africa safaris \| Meru National Park, Meru safari
		Meru National Park was made famous by the book Born Free, detailing author Joy Adamson's hand-rearing of orphaned lioness Elsa in the Park.
		The beautiful Rojewero River bisects the Park, and along its banks birdwatchers may be fortunate enough to spot the handsome palm-nut vulture and the very elusive Peter's finfoot.
		There is a diversity of scenery in Meru National Park, and a wide variety of habitats, ranging from forest, dry bush and grasslands to swamps and numerous rivers lined with doum palms, tamarind trees and acacias.
	africanadrenalin.co.za /cca/meru_natpark.htm (143 words)

	Texas Precancel Stamp Club Personality
		The United Devices Cancer Research Project is asking you to volunteer your PC to help process molecular research being conducted by the Department of Chemistry at the University of Oxford in England and the National Foundation for Cancer Research.
		The vultures have contributed 2,622 YEARS (rank #3) of computer time of the overall 375,909 YEARS computed so far.
		VULTURE profile LigandFit devices carrion/ carcass/ offal/ Angolan vulture P3 0.5GHz (processor score 52);
	tx4.us /personal.htm (745 words)

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