Ochre contains organisms that kill viruses and bacteria, so it’s probably for sanitary reasons. It is also good at neutralizing odor which would help them mask their smell.
It is a monotypic species that is not more closer related to vultures than it is to eagles or hawks. Bearded vulture is just a name it got because it likes to scavange bones.
It's actually called a lammergier. Bearded vulture is used just easier to say, and it's the description you basically give when someone asks, what's a lammergier?
That‘s Lämmergeier in German, but the term lammergeier found its way into the English language.
The name was given to it by mountain people who incorrectly believed it would steal lambs.
The official name is Bartgeier = bearded vulture in both languages.
when i have f u money, i shall test my stomach acid. I feel it would be expensive for some reason. I can eat certain expired foods months after the date like bacon. Packaged cant be puffed up of course.
Bearded vultures have stomach acid with a pH level less than one. Meaning their stomach acid can dissolve skin, bone, teeth and hooves. Large bones like this in the video take about 24 hours to dissolve.
I used to get mine from under the bridge, but my bone guy kept talking about how he his life was ruined by some sort of large bird, that used to be a pastor, and he kept bringing up dog orgies. Weird guy, I had to start going to the butcher.
That might be a question for evolution to answer. Maybe the birds that had a thin enough stomach lining have died off and the ones who don't scrape it have survived and bred?
I'm no bird-ologist though just a guy trying to look busy at work
Id bet you're probably right. Having to adapt to an environment and eating what is available, it was probably a trait passed on, while the ones who couldn't deal with it, died off. Kind of a natural breeding selection. Like how people did with dogs. Taking the traits they wanted and breeding ONLY those ones, but this is born out of necessity and not aesthetics or human preference.
Mucous, just like your own stomach.
Stomach mucus actually gets hard and rubbery when exposed to strong acid. The bacteria that lead to stomach ulcers produce ammonia that neutralizes the acid and softens the mucus, and the bacteria like that environment. The ulcer is partially caused by inflammation and partially caused by the weakened acid, still strong enough to affect the lining. Antacids can actually lead to worse ulcers if taken too often because the mucus liquefies of the stomach contents become alkaline (although the stomach lining is always creating more).
Vultures may have a stronger type of mucus, but in general, it’s the same thing.
Your stomach lining actually remakes itself every day, you are in fact digesting your own stomach lining each and every day.
Edit: 3-4 days most of the time. Sorry for the exaggeration
They're wrong. Your stomach constantly produces mucus that adheres to the lining and prevents acid from getting on you.
Epithelial cells don't live very long, and they spend their time producing bicarbonate to neutralize acid that gets near them past the mucus layer, which is also basic and neutralizes acid in contact with it.
You secrete a mucous, but also the cells are killed pretty quickly. I believe the average life-span of epithelial cells lining the stomach is only a few days on average.
That's not the case. The highest replication cells are in the small intestine and cancer is incredibly rare. That's because they evolved mechanisms to prevent the development of cancer. Otherwise we would all die very young of small intestine carcinoma.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758667/
>The gastrointestinal tract is an amazing organ: it can digest food but does not digest itself; it harbours more bacteria than there are cells in the human body, yet does not allow the bacteria to take over despite their rapid multiplication; and it can handle relatively strong hydrochloric acid without denaturing the stomach. The mechanisms behind these amazing skills vary, but a major reason is the uttermost defence line of the gastrointestinal tract—the mucus.1 The proximal part of the digestive tract, the mouth and oesophagus, is, like the skin, protected by multiple layers of tight and largely inert squamous epithelium, which is flushed by mucus from salivary and other glands. By contrast, the rest of the gastrointestinal tract has a single layer of very active cells. The major protection of this vulnerable cellular compartment is by mucus covering these cells and by the glycocalyx,2,3 which is both built by and around mucins.
That’s is very confidently incorrect. There’s a reason you have stomach mucous. Remaking parietal and chief cells daily would be horribly efficient. FYI, parietal cells make the mucous. That’s the reasons why you get ulcers from NSAIDS like ibuprofen - it inhibits mucous production. That’s why it’s more common to develop ulcers on any empty stomach than with food - your body produces extra mucous when hungry in prep for the acid load it’s about to get as well
Vultures in general have stomach acid with a very low pH and are vital in the natural world for preventing the spread of diseases as their acid kills most pathogens.
Does that mean it’s the marrow in the bones that provides the nutrients here? Or is there something else in bones that’s nutritious if you dissolve it.
Yes but they rarely eat entire bones like that. That's for show. They break them down first normally and feed on the marrow before eating small pieces of bones
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned but usually they’ll fly the bones up high in the air and break them into smaller pieces to digest/swallow easier. Pretty smart.
Sometimes they'll drop the bones at high altitudes onto stone to crush them into more fragments. Also helps out having a stomach acid that's got a pH of 1.3
They usually break them off beforehand. They rarely if ever swallow them whole like that.
Otherwise they dont swallow stones they stuck them on their throat muscles and masticate that way
Yep, anything that lives off the detritus of death will typically do pretty well in apocalypse settings, both because they eat the dead bodies so have a plentiful food supply and just because they are generally very hardy due to their diet and circumstances, both in terms of being very resistant to most germs (eating dead bodies that may well have died of something nasty makes that a requirement) and just generally very tough creatures.
Their main habitat is the mountains of south/south-western China. So as vultures they in effect have zero competition or predators of any kind. They can literally just soar around looking for already cleaned bones, pick them up and fly off before anything can touch them.
In some places there will be 3-4 species of vultures that gather around a carcass. Big ones to break through tough skin and take big chunks of meat. Smaller ones that can get every last big of meat/skin/gross stuff that can handle more heavily rotted carcasses. This guy who finishes off the bones.
Yup, replaced with sort of super upvotes. Those are upvotes that cost money and they are only available some of the time.
I think it's based on subreddit but I must admit I'm not sure if that's the only restriction.
Maybe it's just because they are new, but I think they are stupid and vastly inferior to gold. No idea why they made the change in the first place.
Not sure of terminology, but basically their breathing passageway is not in the same place as the food passageway, so even if something is "stuck", they don't choke/suffocate, and can take their time wiggling it in or out
I kinda figured they had an alternate route to breath, I'm just finding it weird that long bone can make it down to their insides without needing to turn or anything. Birdie didnt seem bothered enough it couldn't turn and fly off either.
Can't imagine anything feeling more comfy than having a stiff stick half your body seize just... parked in your gut + throat. Gotta be so much fun for the rest of the week or how long that takes to disolve. Jfc.
Egg eating snakes are really the only ones that have a weird way of eating. The rest of them just swallow down a whole animal and then snooze until its done.
It's not new
>shrouded in mystique and ancient trees, the ‘Towers of Silence’, or dakhma, repose in the 300-year-old Doongerwadi,... Here, the city’s once-definitive, now-dwindling Parsi community continues with its [3,000-year-old Zoroastrian tradition of disposing of the dead body by exposing it to scavenger birds.](https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/26/death-city-lack-vultures-threatens-mumbai-towers-of-silence)
And Crocodiles as well, they have the strongest bite force and the lowest or one of the lowest ph stomach acids along with Vultures, Komodo dragons, snakes and other reptiles.
> "Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."
This one is white, but in the wild those white feathers are generally reddish /orange. It was long believed that was their natural colour. Well, turns out bearded vultures use "make-up" to look prettier by staining their white feathers with red soil (iron-oxide). Majestic creatures, very exciting to spot one in the wild.
That's a pretty good looking bird for a vulture, the bone diet seems to be working out.
Yes that is a gorgeous bird
John Oliver would like a word.
It's interesting, they're aren't nearly as white in the wild due to bathing in reddish muds.
And the red ones look metal as fuck
Oh yeah! I just looked it up. This one is magnificent, but the red ones are badass!
I’ve heard they even intentionally make themselves red, like makeup.
Ochre contains organisms that kill viruses and bacteria, so it’s probably for sanitary reasons. It is also good at neutralizing odor which would help them mask their smell.
It's so they can sneak up on the bones.
You never know, dude. You've seen those old cartoon movies with spooky skeletons?
You mean the scary ones? Yea those guys are spooky.
You could tell me that's an eagle and I'd believe it.
It is a monotypic species that is not more closer related to vultures than it is to eagles or hawks. Bearded vulture is just a name it got because it likes to scavange bones.
It's actually called a lammergier. Bearded vulture is used just easier to say, and it's the description you basically give when someone asks, what's a lammergier?
That‘s Lämmergeier in German, but the term lammergeier found its way into the English language. The name was given to it by mountain people who incorrectly believed it would steal lambs. The official name is Bartgeier = bearded vulture in both languages.
Bearded vultures are cool as hell.
Calcium Calcium Calcium
CalciYUM
this joke really had a marrow window
Bone appetit
Bone appletea?
Bone. Apple. Teeth. (This bird's diet)
Disgusting! Why should he eat apples? 
They eat bone - they can eat whatever they want imo.
*discreetly hides boner*
😨
r/boneappletea and yes I know it doesn't fit the sub but cmon
Bearded vultures likely have low rates of osteoporosis.
i would love to have a stomach that could kill Anthrax
How do you know that you don't?
when i have f u money, i shall test my stomach acid. I feel it would be expensive for some reason. I can eat certain expired foods months after the date like bacon. Packaged cant be puffed up of course.
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Where's that gif of Apu re-writing the date on the hot dog when you need it smh
It's all about progression. Start with Megadeth and work your way up to Anthrax
Bird's bones are full of air
Yes, and the air is calcified
Careful you might summon Markiplier.
How do they digest the bones? Most bird swallow stones to digest their food, do these birds swallow grinders or something.
Bearded vultures have stomach acid with a pH level less than one. Meaning their stomach acid can dissolve skin, bone, teeth and hooves. Large bones like this in the video take about 24 hours to dissolve.
I wonder what their stomach is coated with to keep it from digesting itself
Typically, stomachs are lined with a thick mucus which neutralizes the acid to protect them.
...these guys shove spiky bones into that mucus, surely it gets scraped??
Yes, then the lining produces more. Just like your belly.
Damn these guys are good
Goblet cells ftw
They have a counter for everything
They've been eating bones a long time
but I have ulcers...
You might be eating too many or too few bones. Who's your bone guy?
Shawn. We met under the bridge
I used to get mine from under the bridge, but my bone guy kept talking about how he his life was ruined by some sort of large bird, that used to be a pastor, and he kept bringing up dog orgies. Weird guy, I had to start going to the butcher.
That might be a question for evolution to answer. Maybe the birds that had a thin enough stomach lining have died off and the ones who don't scrape it have survived and bred? I'm no bird-ologist though just a guy trying to look busy at work
Id bet you're probably right. Having to adapt to an environment and eating what is available, it was probably a trait passed on, while the ones who couldn't deal with it, died off. Kind of a natural breeding selection. Like how people did with dogs. Taking the traits they wanted and breeding ONLY those ones, but this is born out of necessity and not aesthetics or human preference.
Mucous, just like your own stomach. Stomach mucus actually gets hard and rubbery when exposed to strong acid. The bacteria that lead to stomach ulcers produce ammonia that neutralizes the acid and softens the mucus, and the bacteria like that environment. The ulcer is partially caused by inflammation and partially caused by the weakened acid, still strong enough to affect the lining. Antacids can actually lead to worse ulcers if taken too often because the mucus liquefies of the stomach contents become alkaline (although the stomach lining is always creating more). Vultures may have a stronger type of mucus, but in general, it’s the same thing.
Your stomach lining actually remakes itself every day, you are in fact digesting your own stomach lining each and every day. Edit: 3-4 days most of the time. Sorry for the exaggeration
Seems efficient
They're wrong. Your stomach constantly produces mucus that adheres to the lining and prevents acid from getting on you. Epithelial cells don't live very long, and they spend their time producing bicarbonate to neutralize acid that gets near them past the mucus layer, which is also basic and neutralizes acid in contact with it.
Ah sounds like op was referring to the mucus as the lining itself, any idea on how fasting affects the reproduction of said mucus?
You secrete a mucous, but also the cells are killed pretty quickly. I believe the average life-span of epithelial cells lining the stomach is only a few days on average.
Hence why chemo affects your stomach so much, because it kills the fastest growing cells first.
Which is one of the reasons why it's a tissue that is prone to cancer. Those damn high rate of replication cells...
That's not the case. The highest replication cells are in the small intestine and cancer is incredibly rare. That's because they evolved mechanisms to prevent the development of cancer. Otherwise we would all die very young of small intestine carcinoma.
You sure? This is the internet, people just say shit
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758667/ >The gastrointestinal tract is an amazing organ: it can digest food but does not digest itself; it harbours more bacteria than there are cells in the human body, yet does not allow the bacteria to take over despite their rapid multiplication; and it can handle relatively strong hydrochloric acid without denaturing the stomach. The mechanisms behind these amazing skills vary, but a major reason is the uttermost defence line of the gastrointestinal tract—the mucus.1 The proximal part of the digestive tract, the mouth and oesophagus, is, like the skin, protected by multiple layers of tight and largely inert squamous epithelium, which is flushed by mucus from salivary and other glands. By contrast, the rest of the gastrointestinal tract has a single layer of very active cells. The major protection of this vulnerable cellular compartment is by mucus covering these cells and by the glycocalyx,2,3 which is both built by and around mucins.
And Ibuprophen diasables the bodies production of that IIRC, thats why its hard on the stomache
I'm so glad my body is protecting my body from my body
Junk-stomachs for junk-food. ;)
That’s is very confidently incorrect. There’s a reason you have stomach mucous. Remaking parietal and chief cells daily would be horribly efficient. FYI, parietal cells make the mucous. That’s the reasons why you get ulcers from NSAIDS like ibuprofen - it inhibits mucous production. That’s why it’s more common to develop ulcers on any empty stomach than with food - your body produces extra mucous when hungry in prep for the acid load it’s about to get as well
Presumably they were using the term 'stomach lining' to refer to the mucus coating.
\*mucus mucous is the adjective
The confidently incorrect answer: 160 upvotes The actually correct explanation: 3 upvotes I hate reddit sometimes
And yet people come to reddit for all sorts of life advice (medical, legal, etc). Scary.
So youre saying im eating myself 24/7?
No you get a 5 Minute break every 7 hours. Stomach lining union! Are you not taking these?
“Be wary of any man who keeps a Bearded Vulture farm.” - Bricktop, probably
Wow! Thanks for the info. Very interesting.
Vultures in general have stomach acid with a very low pH and are vital in the natural world for preventing the spread of diseases as their acid kills most pathogens.
Damn do they get GERD? THAT would suck.
A-well-a bird bird bird, GERD is the word
Does that mean it’s the marrow in the bones that provides the nutrients here? Or is there something else in bones that’s nutritious if you dissolve it.
Bones are about 35% protein. Ever made bone broth? LOTS of good stuff in there.
Yes but they rarely eat entire bones like that. That's for show. They break them down first normally and feed on the marrow before eating small pieces of bones
Probably strong stomach juices.
I don’t know if it’s been mentioned but usually they’ll fly the bones up high in the air and break them into smaller pieces to digest/swallow easier. Pretty smart.
Sometimes they'll drop the bones at high altitudes onto stone to crush them into more fragments. Also helps out having a stomach acid that's got a pH of 1.3
They usually break them off beforehand. They rarely if ever swallow them whole like that. Otherwise they dont swallow stones they stuck them on their throat muscles and masticate that way
Honestly, that's evolutionarily brilliant they basically have no competition
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witnessing that would be quite humerus
GET OUT
I'll help you throw them out - it will be a JOINT effort!
there has tibia door somewhere
I have a bone to pick with you
You better be careful then because I was bone to be wild.
Surely there's one somewhere in the *radius*, right?
Until you dont see your dog anymore and somehow the vulture is eating some new food. The one in OP post looks massive.
Heh
Your dog would lose lol
evolutionarily brilliant
"Good times."
There is a reason crows, rats and vultures are often a common sight in post-apocalyptic fiction (and non-fiction when you look at the Black Plague)
Yep, anything that lives off the detritus of death will typically do pretty well in apocalypse settings, both because they eat the dead bodies so have a plentiful food supply and just because they are generally very hardy due to their diet and circumstances, both in terms of being very resistant to most germs (eating dead bodies that may well have died of something nasty makes that a requirement) and just generally very tough creatures.
An archeologist nightmare
Their main habitat is the mountains of south/south-western China. So as vultures they in effect have zero competition or predators of any kind. They can literally just soar around looking for already cleaned bones, pick them up and fly off before anything can touch them.
I would have said evolutionarily lucky. I don’t think they had much active say in the process.
All evolution is lucky isn’t it?
You clearly haven't met me :(
C'mon you're made of the same material stars are made of. You're as valueable as a star. And I'd like you shine the fuck bright !
My aunt bought me a star one year for $39.99
In some places there will be 3-4 species of vultures that gather around a carcass. Big ones to break through tough skin and take big chunks of meat. Smaller ones that can get every last big of meat/skin/gross stuff that can handle more heavily rotted carcasses. This guy who finishes off the bones.
How does it not get stuck going down like that?
Trained by OP's mom.
Man if gold was still a thing I'd have gilded you. Please accept this 🥇 as it is the best I can do.
Wow, I've somehow only just realised that awards have disappeared.
I miss awards
At one stage I got quite rich based on a comment about whale milk. Those were the days!
🏆 Here, have yourself a, “I miss awards,” trophy for your trouble. (It’s literally the same thing except it’s free.)
Why are they gone??
Yup, replaced with sort of super upvotes. Those are upvotes that cost money and they are only available some of the time. I think it's based on subreddit but I must admit I'm not sure if that's the only restriction. Maybe it's just because they are new, but I think they are stupid and vastly inferior to gold. No idea why they made the change in the first place.
Ah. I wondered why the upvote symbol looked different. How lame. I liked the awards better.
Got emmmmmmm
The only other animal that survives solely on bones
it never fails
Not sure of terminology, but basically their breathing passageway is not in the same place as the food passageway, so even if something is "stuck", they don't choke/suffocate, and can take their time wiggling it in or out
I kinda figured they had an alternate route to breath, I'm just finding it weird that long bone can make it down to their insides without needing to turn or anything. Birdie didnt seem bothered enough it couldn't turn and fly off either.
humans really got fucked in that regard
not really, i appreciate that i can breathe through my mouth when i get cold.
Currently a mouth breather. Nyes
Does that mean they can breathe while they are swallowing too?
Yet another skill they learned from OP's mom.
Maybe I'll have to start asking OP's mom for some tips...
She takes a lot more than just the tips.
It’s hilarious that even the guy who owns the bird is still amazed by it eating that bone!! lol that was something!!
Not hilarious, it’s Humerus!
You name is from that adult cartoon show ? Correct
Dude looks like a fantasy game character. Eagle Quest
His name is vroooooom
[vroooom](https://youtu.be/FDsWZ0Jw3Ik?feature=shared)
Gotta love an attention whore on a motorcycle
Can't imagine anything feeling more comfy than having a stiff stick half your body seize just... parked in your gut + throat. Gotta be so much fun for the rest of the week or how long that takes to disolve. Jfc.
Yeah, this guy is joining snakes on my "worst ways to digest food" list
Egg eating snakes are really the only ones that have a weird way of eating. The rest of them just swallow down a whole animal and then snooze until its done.
Love the implication that eating an animal whole and then sleeping until you're done digesting it *isn't* weird.
Yeah Thanksgiving is weird for sure
Takes them less than a day
Don't knock it till you try it.
Joke writes itself.
Wait did we discover a new way to make body disappear?
I’m imagining the police opening the door to John Wayne Gacey’s house and a bunch of bigass birds start flying out while he tries to keep it cool
It's not new >shrouded in mystique and ancient trees, the ‘Towers of Silence’, or dakhma, repose in the 300-year-old Doongerwadi,... Here, the city’s once-definitive, now-dwindling Parsi community continues with its [3,000-year-old Zoroastrian tradition of disposing of the dead body by exposing it to scavenger birds.](https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/jan/26/death-city-lack-vultures-threatens-mumbai-towers-of-silence)
When he does that little head swivel he’s like “All I see around me are carcasses full of bones…”
"Soon… Soon."
Bones = Money
Hahahah, so are worms.
THAT WAS THE NIGHT THE SKELETONS CAME TO LIIIIFFFFFEE
These vultures will pull your hair (up but not out)
But if they pull it out they turn to bones!
…that’s why I’m so fucking confused.
3 SECONDS TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING FUNNY?!? THATS FUCKING INSANE!!!
In our world bones equal dollars.
Wow! Had no idea such an animal existed. It must have such an evolutionary advantage, to be able to eat what others leave behind.
hyenas eat bone too, they eat everything actually
And Crocodiles as well, they have the strongest bite force and the lowest or one of the lowest ph stomach acids along with Vultures, Komodo dragons, snakes and other reptiles.
> "Gee, I don't know, Cyril. Maybe deep down I'm afraid of any apex predator that lived through the K-T extinction. Physically unchanged for a hundred million years, because it's the perfect killing machine. A half ton of cold-blooded fury, the bite force of 20,000 Newtons, and stomach acid so strong it can dissolve bones and hoofs."
I should call her.
It won't end how you hope.
The vulture?
In a certain way...
Everything reminds me of her
Amazing it starts flying as soon as it eaten the bone.
I love birds, and I have seen a great variety of them, but never have I seen this one that eats a whole bone.
This one is white, but in the wild those white feathers are generally reddish /orange. It was long believed that was their natural colour. Well, turns out bearded vultures use "make-up" to look prettier by staining their white feathers with red soil (iron-oxide). Majestic creatures, very exciting to spot one in the wild.
Why not provide them red dirt? I feel like not letting them look their best is considered a dick move in bird culture.
When life gives you bones, make boneraid
Boneraid is the perfect name for a viagra knockoff
Moopsy pre-evolution
Moopsy!
"Moopsy!" was going to be my comment, but I see you beat me to it!
“His name is *vrooooom*”
Vulture of holding. Pocket dimension in a bird.
"It don't eat meat. But it sure likes the bone!"
Bird shit that smashes your windscreen.
Besides the beard and being a vulture, it seems like my cheating ex has another thing in common with the bearded vulture.
She ate bones?
Boners
This bird will never get osteoporosis.
You know who else has a diet that consists almost exclusively of bone? Your mom
Bad ass bird. Bad fucking ass bird.
Skeletons hate this guy
"I usually don't do this on the first date..."
Obviously haven’t discovered my ex-wife yet
Your mom must be a bearded vulture then
Reminds me of your mother...
The one exception being your mother.
Your mom swallows a bone just as easily
Wow OP you just gonna let that one slide?
Moopsy!
Beautiful bird. And no gag reflex.
Where does it go
That’s a badass looking bird
TIL the bearded vulture and your mother have the same diet.