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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by TheLobotomist to c/[email protected]
 

And their main defense is...

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They may be gross, but so is having rotten corpses sitting in the open. By getting rid of those corpses they are doing us a solid, so turkey vultures are cool in my book. The only animal that's profoundly not cool is mosquitos, they're a worthless species.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They are cool indeed but to be even cooler they shit on their legs and feet

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's what makes them so cool!

[–] soloner 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wouldn't microorganisms eat the carcass away either way?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Microorganisms disintegrate the corpse into foul-smelling goop that is highly infectious and stains anything it touches. I'll take the vulture over that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mosquitos are pretty significant polinators though