Leonardo da Vinci

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Italian Artist

Noreena Hertz

Debt vultures are really the scum at the bottom of the pond. These are guys who buy up the debts of the world's poorest countries on the secondary market. You can go buy debts of a country like Peru, for example, at a real discount. Why? Because people think that the debts won't be repaid.

English Author

Stephen Moore

Many small business owners want to pass their family legacy on to their kids and grandkids, but they are turned over to vulture funds because the family may be asset rich but lacks the cash to pay the estate taxes. I have met people who literally sold the farm to pay the taxes.

American Writer

Paul Stanley

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.

American Musician

Josh Homme

I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people.

Ethan Coen

In 'True Grit,' we had a vulture, a trained vulture... that was a pain and that was - even by vulture standards - probably a stupid vulture, and that was frustrating.

American Director

Suzy Kassem

Fear the vulture, and the vulture will come. Fear nothing, and you are the vulture.

Kevin Nealon

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

American Comedian

Debbie Harry

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

Tionne Watkins

There's vultures out here. You need to listen and learn.

Vulture symbolizes nature's way of cleaning by eating decomposing carcasses hence preventing spread of disease.

Nature's cleaner

Although often depicted as bald, not all vultures lack feathers on their head.

Not always bald

Vultures have various cultural meanings, sometimes positive as cleansers, sometimes negative as death symbols.

Cultural symbol

Using 'vulture' to describe a person implies strong negativity, suggesting taking advantage of others' misfortunes.

Negative connotation

The term is often used idiomatically in various scenarios where someone benefits from another's unfortunate situation.

Idiomatic usage

Be careful when using 'vulture' metaphorically, as it may offend or be too harsh in certain situations.

Context sensitivity

 while other researchers are working to repopulate vulture communities through breeding programs. Some regions have even opened vulture restaurants where farmers safely dispose of drug-free livestock. With help, vultures will be able to continue their role

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 I see it. There it is. Now you can shave your beard. I can shave, I can shave now. One of the things that is peculiar to this place is that there are just so many vultures around. But the leopard has to continually protect its prey during the daytime

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 course dead meat like this armadillo might have bacteria which is why after eating the king vulture lounges in the Sun the short feathers of its head keep the bacteria from getting trapped and then ultraviolet rays help kill the

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 without a whole set of preconceptions what I had to do is is think of ways of presenting vultures to the world they're the fastest declining birds in history they're the fastest declining family of

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 vulture has anything to do with it these birds are always on the lookout for edible orbs and jackal proof packaging ostrich eggs are an important source of protein and this vulture has a

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 packaging ostrich eggs are an important source of protein and this vulture has a strategy to get at its contents the Egyptian vulture is one of the few birds

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 a few moments from death, a vulture hovering in the background, a picture that went round the world and shocked people into action on poverty.