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by nukeman 777 days ago
Old World Vultures are not closely related to New World Vultures (which are closer to storks). The mechanism which kills vultures in India and Africa does not present the same issue in vultures native to North America.
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mkl 776 days ago
The bit about being closer to storks seems disputed, and contradicted by more recent DNA evidence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_vulture
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LAC-Tech 777 days ago
All my schoolboy taxonomy feels useless now! Crazy that it was convergent evolution.
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