Useless trivia of the day: Vultures have feathers on their heads when they’re young, but the go bald from having their heads in carcasses all the time.
If it weren’t for turkey buzzards and black vultures, NJ would be neck-deep in roadkill. I have even seen hawks and eagles on carcasses. Who needs to hunt when you can go to an all-you-can-eat buffet?
If all vultures (and other carrion consumers) switch from consuming the flesh of dead creatures to eating pizza, will even a year go by before one (or more) of the existential viruses which originate in that unconsumed flesh — to spread far and wide — do not result in one (or multiple) pandemic(s) which travel via human transportation to every continent and overwhelm every attempt at human eradication/control/vaccination?
hariseldon59 8 months ago
I’m surprised he didn’t offer them Twinkies
SteveHL 8 months ago
But that’s clearly pizza with pepperoni so they are still getting a supply of dead animal flesh.
And if you have any left over, RJ, I’ll be glad to get rid of it for you. Just trying to help scavenge.
ron 8 months ago
Pizza is (hopefully) all ‘dead stuff’.
Purple People Eater 8 months ago
Useless trivia of the day: Vultures have feathers on their heads when they’re young, but the go bald from having their heads in carcasses all the time.
Plumbob Wilson 8 months ago
If it weren’t for turkey buzzards and black vultures, NJ would be neck-deep in roadkill. I have even seen hawks and eagles on carcasses. Who needs to hunt when you can go to an all-you-can-eat buffet?
Chithing Premium Member 8 months ago
Next, they’re going to want road kill pizza.
Ellis97 8 months ago
Aren’t the pepperonis already made from dead animals?
David in Webb Premium Member 8 months ago
Then who’s going to clean up the roadkill?
Gina Carson 8 months ago
I’m a snack. Eat me.
Doug K 8 months ago
Another ecosystem put out of balance by humans, pizza, and raccoons.
lsnrchrd.1 Premium Member 8 months ago
If all vultures (and other carrion consumers) switch from consuming the flesh of dead creatures to eating pizza, will even a year go by before one (or more) of the existential viruses which originate in that unconsumed flesh — to spread far and wide — do not result in one (or multiple) pandemic(s) which travel via human transportation to every continent and overwhelm every attempt at human eradication/control/vaccination?
Aladar30 Premium Member 8 months ago
The natural order has been destroyed forever.
MFRXIM Premium Member 8 months ago
Andrew Zimmern, (Bizarre Foods), considers offal stinky…in a good way.