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Re: vultures & predation



>The bird in question is the Lammegier or Egyptian Vulture (Gypaetus
>Barbatus), and the Greek intellectual done in by being beaned with a
>tortoise was Sophocles (as reported by Pliny).

Aeschylus, if I'm not mistaken.
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