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The bird in question (Gypaetus barbatus = bearded vulture)
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Balkans peninsula (Europe), too, but is extremely rare. It favors bone marrow, which it gets by throwing the bones from the air. (The biggest European true vulture Gyps fulvus, lives on the Balkans, too.) Bearded vulture also uses a kind of "tools"- stones for breaking open stolen eggs. An intriguing idea : Imagine the array of small dinosaurs- egg thieves (eggs of all sizes must have been abundant in the Mesozoic)- with agile hands - do you wonder if they used some kind of tools? We'll probably never know. Speculating further: maybe alvarezsaurids used their peculiar hands for opening eggs or breaking open the turtle shells? Berislav Krzic veselinka.stanisavac@siol.net Beri's Dinosaur World http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Lab/1638/index.html Dinosaur Books http://www2.siol.net/ext/zza/index.html |