Vultures Rule The Skies cape Vulture

The Cape griffon, also known as the Cape vulture

, is among the most majestic raptors youll see in South African skies. Intelligent, far-sighted, blessed with a sense of humour and (mostly) not too smelly, griffons are often the 1st vultures youll see arrive at a kill or a vulture restaurant.

Ask any rehabilitator of injured raptors about their favourite birds, and they will confide that it is not the noble eagle, but instead the vulture preferably a Cape vulture, also known as a Cape griffon.

These fierce-eyed birds with their creamy, buff feathers are highly intelligent.

And youd think that Cape griffons, or other vultures for that matter, smell as bad as the carrion they eat. But in fact they are fastidious birds, bathing in clean water after every meal. They mostly exude a faint, pleasant fragrance not dissimilar to baby talcum powder.

They can also be mischievous, and seem to find human shoelaces endlessly amusing.

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In the wild, they are majestic on the wing. They fly higher than any other vulture 8 000 metres, which means their eyesight is incredibly good. Scientific studies have suggested they can see 8 times further than humans, with 20 times better resolution. They can even see air molecules moving, which is how they find thermals.

In other words, you dont see them high in the sky, but they certainly can see you.

Theyre also the biggest eaters at a carrion feast, wolfing down a kilogram or more in just a few minutes.

They have gregarious lives, mostly roosting in cliff-side colonies.

South Africa is home to about 10 000 Cape vultures. The best places to see them are the Magaliesberg mountains, where there is a large, stable colony, near the Sterkfontein Dam in the Free State, the Drakensberg mountains, De Hoop Nature Reserve near Cape Town, and at Kranskop in the Marakele National Park in the Waterberg a few hours' north of Pretoria.

Their greatest threats are poisonings and collisions with power lines. And the greatest help for their continued existence comes from farmers who bring carcasses to vulture restaurants.

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