7. Egyptian Vulture
The Egyptian vulture could be compared to “freegans,” which are people who try to live a consumer-free lifestyle by dumpster diving for discarded food products. This bird employs similar tactics to find its sustenance. The Egyptian vulture doesn’t have a sense of smell, and relies on its vision to locate food. It will dumpster dive for fruits and vegetables and has even been know to eat feces. Although this vulture doesn’t seem to have a refined palate, it does employ a special technique to crack eggs that earns him high culinary marks. In fact, the Egyptian vulture is the only bird that eats eggs. It prefers ostrich eggs, but they are too big to pick up, so this bird takes rocks in his mouth and throws them at the egg until the shell breaks. Then, the Egyptian vulture feasts on the gooey center.
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