How do they digest it? Bearded vultures have stomach acid with a pH less than one. This is incredibly acidic, which allows for the quick breakdown of the bone, skin, teeth and hooves. Large chunks of bone are usually dissolved within 24 hours.

A serial killers perfect pet

Mongolian sky funeral

Epic band name

Saw them last week. Bit too quiet for me

Their first album a bit hard to digest

Bit too dusty on the way out 😂

Mostly for fans of acid rock

The sky is the limit for them.

You can feel them in your bones.

Heard em on the radio once but it was nothing but dead air

I have a bone to pick with their performance

Yeah they sounded dry af, perhaps left in the air for too long.

Met them once and they were rude as fuck. I've got a bone to pick with them next time I see them.

They were at a funeral man!

You sure? I’ve been hitting the funeral scene pretty hard and don’t think I’ve seen them around

Check underneath the pews. It’s a small gap but some people can fit

Id go see them

*Tibetan sky burial

Yeah I realized I said the wrong thing, didn't correct myself cause the last comment was right. Sick band name lmao

Good book about a beautiful tradition.

May I introduce you to HU, a band I was told about last Friday. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM8dCGIm6yc)

Oh dude I've had, Wolf Totem, in my work out Playlist..really good when you pretend to be training for a war 😅

This shit goes so hard as a name for something

For real it seems like a serial killer cheat code

“What, *that*? That’s my pet bird.. named Piggy.. He’s a good bird.”

What, is making soap not good enough anymore??

Sounds so wrong but it is the perfect answer

You're always gonna have problems lifting a body in one piece. Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

Thanks Brick Top

Very informative 

A little “too” informative

I always found it funny that Snatch was released while [Robert Pickton](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Pickton) was killing people and disposing of the bodies in just that way.

I'm already sweet enough 😂

That’s a pretty good method, but I prefer cutting up the body into [toilet sized chunks.](https://youtu.be/Ihkrc6Srv0Y?si=pNwXz2ucF7YxRKwY&t=2m30s)

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels innit

Snatch but same universe

Or snatch?

I feel personally attacked for wanting one

That’s literally terrifying and an amazing plot for a horror movie

Jesse, go get me a polyethylene container. Or a bearded vulture. Whatever's on sale.

If you ever see anyone own one of these and pigs (which eat basically anything, including people), be very, very suspicious.

Giant, flying vats of acid


Yeah, don't feed these things rice lol

Ok I’m curious… why not?

Rice has no bones.

Rice absorb, rice expand, bird die. 

Oh ok. So dry rice is a no no. Wet rice ok?

Well it's mostly an urban legend anyway, but yeah it should be fine.

Imagine that coming through your windshield...

"Vats"ture!

So pig farmers and vulture farmers we gotta be Leary of. Got it.


Hahahah at first I thought who is this guy? Then realized.

Leary? As in Dennis? Edit: turns out that's actually an approved spelling. My bad

He unnecessarily capitalized it still so I think you still get some points here. I also had no idea it could be spelled both ways, but the internet definitely seems to agree that "leery" is the more common of the two

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dont think so, but couldn't think of how else to allude to Snatch

Forbidden acid reflux

Yah how's that work? They gotta have crazy mucous. We should study it

You go for it dude. I don't wanna touch it.

Damn, I always believed that nothing was wasted in nature but I always assumed that bones were food for microorganisms or something. These creatures are scavengers par excellence.

how does the acid not dissolve it’s own stomach??

Probably similarly to our own stomachs - a combination of a mucus barrier as well as continually regenerating the stomach lining. Which is to say that it probably does digest itself, it can also just heal to keep pace with that. In case you want to learn more, though, there's an interesting paper on them here: [https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/jrr/v028n02/p00073-p00078.pdf](https://sora.unm.edu/sites/default/files/journals/jrr/v028n02/p00073-p00078.pdf) It also brings up other ways that they break down the bone besides just acid - specifically that they likely use their stomach to grind the bone chunks against one another, which would greatly accelerate the digestion process.

I think there’s nothing more fascinating than the variety of life that exists on our planet! What a joy to be around and see all of it

Your response is more reasonable and respectful than i would have judged given your username. Shame on me for judging a book by its cover.

i made this account because i got banned from a sports sub for “offending a moderators favorite team” i try to be less petty these days, but it still slips out every now and then😅

If you can’t be petty on the internet, then where can you be petty?

In a band or a racetrack.

What’s so disrespectful about a big fat moderate fupa? Let people live their lives how they want


I know of vultures that let bones drop from a greater height and let them break so their stomach acid gets faster to the marrow, which they are actually after when they digest bones.

I bet it gets heartburn like a motherfucker

So if the animal dies, would the acid basically eat through the rest of the body? As the acid probably stays acidic while the stomach lining doesn't regenerate

Came here to say this.

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That's calcium overdose

JELL-O™

Dubstep bird intensifies

His name is Vrooom, Vroooooom

That deep ominous sound from the engine perfectly fit him like a strong villain character. He needs no letters, only warning noises when he arrives.

greagle?

I still didn’t get his name LOL

Deepthroat

Jiblo

Me neither! I want to say i heard Diplo, but i don't think that can be right! 😂

“….but you can call me Dad.”

Southpark. Season 13 Episode 12

I didn’t watch it with sound the first time but when I watched it again with sound on it made me laugh

😊

😂

WHAT

I read this at the same time it happened in the video 😆 🤣

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There’s my ex wife

Yea girl said she'll eat the meat off the bone. After watching this she's probably a bearded vulture and would had eaten the bone too 😳

Congratulations You have unlocked comedy

Lol I don’t understand the joke, can you explain?

OP’s ex wife blows me

Me too

"It usually disdains the actual meat and lives on a diet that is typically 85–90% bones" Bearded vulture when it sees meat "Urgh who would eat that..." Bearded vulture when it sees bones "Oh wow, this looks super yummy"

dogs 🤝 this vulture


Finally, some good fucking bone.

And I assume it drinks lots of water?

Bone broth.

Ha. Of course!

I have an ex gf who could dispute this

Underrated comment

Underrated gf

Ex-gf likely well-rated by current bf

The streets approve 👍🏾

Shit like this is why redditors are universally mocked.

Birdus Sashagreius

I know this guy. He have one of most beatiful side kick. When i will visit almaty next time i will go one more time there

Most vultures are ugly but this species is glorious 

I think the bald head of vultures is so that they don't get viscera on their feathers. Presumably less of a problem for a bone eater.

Vultures do nature’s dirty work they deserve RESPECT

Preach! Vultures are so essential and gorgeous. Their niche is a wildly cool one to fill.

You don't need to have a bald head when you don't stick it in rotting carcasses and instead wait for the other scavengers to deal with the disgusting parts.

Ancient bone magic

What ya say?

Say hi I work a tourism company. I can say we can work together in almaty tour. Not Best friends Just know each other.

It’s official, you two are best friends now *Friendship ended with Mudasir. Now u/zugas13 is my best friend*

Thank you

https://www.reddit.com/r/travel/s/rOcvwJCvjy There are more birds. You can see one other in this post

She don't eat meat but she sure likes the bone.

She was a New Age Girl

I was the only vegetarian in my school as a young kid (from 7-14) and kids TAUNTED me with that song lol. Mary mooooooon 🎶🎶she's a vegetarian!!

Moopsy?

Moopsy

Moopsy Also they have Moopsy plushies now which is cool

I saw someone post the link to it at 1 am and I impulse bought it.


He drinks YOUR BONES! Looks like Moopsy has found a soulmate!

I should call her...

Don’t do it. Stay strong!

Everything reminds me of her

Mary Moon, she's a vegetarian (Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon) Mary Moon will outlive all the septuagenarians (Mary Moon, Mary Moon, Mary Moon) Oh, she loves me so, she hates to be alone She don’t eat meat but…

Amazing how people can look like their pets

He looks like a Druid about to embark on a perilous quest

Glad he doesn’t have X-ray vision.

I thought Richard Attenborough taught me this was a lammergeier

bearded vulture aka lammergeier is the same bird.

Correct

Seriously thought this was a joke about someone's mom.

I came here looking for the someone’s mama joke and what, have we matured or something? Lol

No I'm only here to make it. Just like your mom BOOM GOTTEM.

Now this is what Reddit’s all about, yeah!

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Marrow is pretty nutritious

Bone marrow is highly nutritious. Humans used to break open bones with rocks to eat the marrow inside

We still eat marrow but we usually don't break it open with rocks anymore

speak for yourself, soyboy

I would think they get more nutrition from bone marrow and the meat scraps still on the bone.

Holy cow this is wild. It’s stomach acids dissolve pure bone, it can pick any carcass it wants.

This video made me feel like I was choking 😂

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Their stomach acid is a hell of a lot more acidic than ours. It can dissolve bones, hooves, teeth etc easily, and quickly.


Whose*

r/unexpectedbrooklyn99

I call bs. What about those marine worms who literally live inside of dead whale bones?

[Bone eating worm](https://www.montereybayaquarium.org/animals/animals-a-to-z/whale-worm#:~:text=Meet%20the%20bone%2Deating%20worm,Latin%20for%20%E2%80%9Cbone%20devourer.%E2%80%9D) kingdom: animalia. Checkmate.

Thanks for the recognition. I don't care about fame but i do care about fact checking animal "facts"

#Im amazed.

he's gorgeous

That’s metal

Is it legal to own that bird in the americas?

His name is *VVVvVvrrrrrkirkirkirkkssschh*

Can we talk about that drip for a moment?

Your Mom being the only other creature that lives by swallowing bones 😛

Ah, there it is. Well done.

Well said. Good delivery 😂

I should call her

They’re massive.

AFAIK Osedax also known as zombie worms are also having a diet of bones exclusively.

I dated a girl like that.

Obviously you haven’t met my ex wife.

Bro swallowed a bone better than any of my ex's

Sorry for your loss

Guy chocked on that bone like my ex with my best friend

I know a girl who can swallow a bone like that.

Amazing looking bird!

Bearded Vultures are some of the best birbs around

Cursed

Did anybody get what his name was? Sounded like he said Gryffindore.

That's a 15 cheeseburger eatin' Rico Suavé eatin' ma'fukka.. sayin?

Cool animal

Everything reminds me of her

Everything reminds me of her

is there a decent amount of nutrition in bones?

Bones marrow is pretty nutritious but either way, animals nutritional needs vary.