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Re: Naked heads (was RE: Velociraptor Animation)

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Subject: Re: Naked heads (was RE: Velociraptor Animation)
From: Raymond Ancog <rayancog@pacific.net.ph>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 18:40:49 +0900
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From: "Williams, Tim" <TiJaWi@agron.iastate.edu>
> Vultures also use their naked heads to help in evaporative cooling.

In an old edition of the Time-Life book "The Birds" by Roger Tory Peterson, he also said that the naked head exposes pathogens to the purifying rays of the sun.


Raymond Thaddeus C. Ancog
Mines and Geosciences Bureau
Philippines

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