Years ago I saw a cartoon with two vultures sitting on a tree limb looking out at the land below, One turns to the other and says, “I’m hungry. Let’s kill something.”
Fast forward to 2021. Farmers in Indiana have reported that black vultures are swooping down and eating newly-born calves. A scientist who studies vultures says this is very unlikely, and that the vultures are no doubt eating calves that are stillborn or dying.
On the other hand, a study in Kentucky found that lambs, kid goats, free-range chickens, and turkeys have been killed by vultures.
See Jim Robbins, “Black Vulture Attacks Put Farmers on Edge,” New York Times, (Sept. 14, 2021), p. D-1, D-3.
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