Assertion: vulture | /r/CapableOf | feed on carrion
Facets:
value: chiefly
type: DEGREE
value: usually
type: DEGREE
value: like other vultures
type: OTHER
value: voraciously
type: DEGREE
value: as their main food source
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: All vultures feed on carrion (animal carcasses), except for palm-nut vultures (Gyphohierax angolensis), which feed on the fruit of the oil palm.
text: They have been recorded eating carrion exclusively, some which is fed on even when putrid.
text: Instead, they consume only carrion which is what is already dead.
text: For it is a creature the least hurtful of any, pernicious neither to corn, fruit-tree, nor cattle; it preys only upon carrion, and never kills or hurts any living thing; and as for birds, it touches not them, though they are dead, as being of its own species, whereas eagles, owls, and hawks mangle and kill their own fellow-creatures.
text: This vulture makes a rattling sound when descending on a carcass and can grunt or hiss at roosts or when feeding on carrion.
text: It may also help to bake off bacteria the vulture has picked up while feeding on carrion.
text: The feet, which are the primary means of killing prey, are exceptionally strong, equipped with long, curved talons, except in the vultures, which feed on carrion.
text: Like other vultures, they typically feed on carrion and can often be found around the carcasses of large mammals.
text: Vultures primarily feed on carrion, mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, amphibians, and invertebrates.
text: Vultures have a bad reputation since they feed on carrion.
text: Buzzard refers to a large hawk-like bird of prey with broad wings and a rounded tail, often seen soaring in wide circles while vulture refers to a large bird of prey with the head and neck more or less bare of feathers, feeding chiefly on carrion and reputed to gather with others in anticipation of the death of a sick or injured animal or person.
text: Buzzards actively capture their prey while vultures feed on carrion.
text: Instead, they feed on carrion.
text: Vultures feed voraciously and indiscriminately, chiefly on carrion.
text: This vulture grunts and hisses at roosts or when feeding on carrion.
text: This vulture grunts and hisses at roosts or when feeding on carrion.
text: Vultures feed mostly on carrion and pushes its head into carcass to feed
text: Vultures eat carrion in the form of road-kills or dead cattle in pastures.
text: Because vultures eat carrion, it is often mistakenly assumed that they are “living garbage disposals” that can make do on any source of food and have very few hazards they face.
text: Vultures usually eat carrion or dead meat.
text: In addition to hunting live prey, most also eat carrion, at least occasionally, and vultures and condors eat carrion as their main food source.
text: Most vultures consume carrion, garbage, and even excrement, but rarely do they descend upon live animals.