Show MC METHODS OF VULTURES hey aire ro guided Gull ll to their food by their it m irk silde power of JQ the month of december as our 11 barty arty aa nag ascending 3 the gorge which aas to petra from the wady el cl anabali 14 HL no of our camels suddenly dropped ie i oi n lead dead says bays a writer in the area hil i II for chis was in ha the evening and ra ho c returned to our camp without BUC ceding in our object that lay day but scarly irly next morning we started again for of petra rea and au on reaching the carcass carcas atif f the dead camel in the early dawn NN 0 found about a dozen vultures congregated around it some of which had al 10 ady gorged ed themselves and were al P 1 lost 1111 to fly now when the if ev c nel dropped down none of these f bals were iu in sight but here net ne t morn arg balile the carcass barca s was still fresh jicy down on their prey there could have been no smell of carrion from this car carcass vass but it might I 1 lc easily aily have been within th thin sight of a bird abird naring cearing at in an elevation which would 11 have alvo rendered it invisible t to a traveler at t the lame time an animal of the size tf of a camel lying motionless on the alie ground have bare been easily visible I 1 toa to a vulture re while out of sight in order to account for the assembling of a group of vultures in so short a time as is here indicated N while none of these birds were v cro apparently within t sight si we may suppose that the birda spread drcar them themselves selve it at wide intervals throughout an extensive district and at i hibb altitude each cach bird soars about keeping a steady gaze on the crould roun d f r tle the carcass of some animal at the roe me time being n N v insight ith ilam sight of his feli feln 0 o ca s au ao soon tw as prey is is sighted iuli ted by one of J tho the groop lie he woop swoops down toward it and this action is the signal to the othor bins that a meal is to be had i here the bird dese descended ended and they ill all boek down accordingly accordine ly the carcass is ill the eagles bagles tares be gathered together |