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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Black Vulture
Nov. 4 5km N Villavicencio, 1400 ft., Huila, Colombia, 5 A.M.
a tentative bite at the exposed, tender
mucous membrane. The horse awoke
and inverted the anus instantaneously,
catching and carrying in the vulture's
head. Then followed a wild flight
across country until the vulture finally
extricated itself. This experience so
impressed the other vultures when told
to them, that a grand council was held
start on
and they decided to attack [illegible] the other
end of the animal first. Ever after,
the eyes have been attacked first.