Vanishing vultures: Africa’s fetish and bushmeat trade is driving its scavengers to extinction

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Nov 19, 2015, 2:00 pm70 pts
Ask anyone dangling a rabbit’s foot from their keychain what the severed appendage is for, and they’ll tell you it brings good fortune. Ask a traditional healer in West or Central Africa how to boost your luck, and they may offer a different prescription: to smoke or snort dried vulture brains. Rabbits…

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