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cyode ◴[20 Oct 25 07:05 UTC] No.45640748[source]▶

>>45640226 (OP) #

A beautifully executed project here, I bought Neal a coffee.

What evolutionary advantage, I wonder, is there to Ruppell's griffon vulture flying at 11400 meters?

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1. sambaumann ◴[20 Oct 25 16:00 UTC] No.45645415[source]▶

>>45640748 #

Wikipedia [1] implies it's to give them an incredibly large field of vision to spot prey, though the source it cites [2] seems less certain about that

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_height...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20131011012320/http://blogs.bu.e...

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