At the time, she called them a "pack of vultures". Now she prefers to see them as "rescuers".
那时，麦考维把他们称之为“一群贪婪成性的秃鹫”，而现在她却喜欢把他们叫做“拯救者”。
Higher up in the crags5 of the nearby Waterberg mountains, roosts the world's largest colony of Cape vultures.
附近的瓦特山高处陡崖上，栖息着世界上最大的南非秃鹫群落。
White headed vultures are native to sub-Saharan Africa and are listed as vulnerable to extinction by the IUCN.
白头鹫原产于非洲撒哈拉以南地区，在IUCN名录中属于易危级别（vulnerable to extinction ）。
Researchers at Tel Aviv University say that a number of the tagged vultures have reached Saudi Arabia since the study began.
特拉维夫大学的研究者说，自研究开始后，许多贴了标签的秃鹫已抵达了沙特阿拉伯。
The vultures try to move in and are prevented by waving sticks and shouts.
秃鹫们再一次试图靠近但被挥舞的棍棒和吆喝声驱赶。
And they have many notable virtues. They're the most cooperative and the most social of all vultures.
它们有很多值得一提的优点。它们是所有秃鹫中最合作和最社会化的一种。
Higher up in the crags of the nearby Waterberg mountains, roosts the world's largest colony of Cape vultures.
附近的瓦特山高处陡崖上，栖息着世界上最大的南非秃鹫群落。
Higher up in the crags15 of the nearby Waterberg mountains, roosts the world's largest colony of Cape vultures.
附近的瓦特山高处陡崖上，栖息着世界上最大的南非秃鹫群落。
The centre is intended to create a secure breeding-stock of vultures that may eventually be released into a diclofenac-free wild.
这个养殖中心是为了给兀鹫创造一个安全繁殖群，也许它们最终会被放生到没有使用双氯芬酸的野外。
The vultures were on the usual tree, and the train was rattling across the bridge, and the river flowed on - here it was very wide, very quiet and very deep.
秃鹫们落在通常的那棵树上，火车在咔嗒咔嗒地穿过那座桥，河水向前流去——这里的河面很宽，很安静，也很深。
Not so in winter, yet the bare trees against the backdrop of a cloudless blue sky, punctuated by vultures riding the thermals, provided a stark beauty all of its own.
而冬天的景致则全然不同，光秃的树木、蔚蓝的长空以及几只乘着气流翱翔的秃鹫共同组成了一幅独具特色的苍凉画卷。
How do you stay alive in a landscape filled with stronger predators, where lions or hyenas will kill your offspring, and jackals or vultures will steal your food?
如果在你的生活环境中，到处都是更强的捕食者，狮子土狼会杀死你的孩子、胡狼和秃鹫会抢走你的食物，你该如何求生存呢？
In just the last three months, the Peregrine Fund has found hundreds of dead vultures near animal carcasses that had been laced with a toxic pesticide called furadan.
仅仅在最近的三个月，游隼基金就在那些被加了剧毒农药虫螨威的动物尸体旁边发现数百只死亡秃鹫。
Unlike cases where invasive species out-compete native animals for food sources, the vultures seem to have been feeding on mostly the carcasses of dead domesticated goats.
不像一些情况下入侵物种在食物竞争中胜过本地物种，秃鹫基本上是以家养山羊的尸体为食。
One study found that vultures have naturally occurring antibodies against certain species of Clostridium, including Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium responsible for botulism.
一项研究发现，秃鹫天然产生针对梭菌属某些菌种的抗体，其中就包括梭菌属肉毒杆菌，这种杆菌是肉毒素中毒的元凶。
How do you stay alive in a landscape filled with stronger predators, where lions or hyenas will kill your offspring, and jackals or vultures will steal your food? You keep moving.
如果在你的生活环境中，到处都是更强的捕食者，狮子土狼会杀死你的孩子、胡狼和秃鹫会抢走你的食物，你该如何求生存呢？
Just how far is described by the first-ever genomic analysis of the micro-organisms found on and in the facial skin and large intestine of vultures, published this week in Nature Communications.
这段描述来自本周的《自然通讯》。该期刊发表了一篇文章，首次对秃鹫面部皮肤以及大肠内的微生物进行了基因分析。
VULTURES are not exactly picky eaters.
秃鹫不能算作挑食者。
Vultures are picking at a lion's carcass .
秃鹫正在啄食狮子的尸体。
Vultures circled overhead as the lions fed.
狮子进食的时候，秃鹫在上空盘旋。
Vultures circled overhead as the lions fed.
狮子进食的时候，秃鹫在上空盘旋。
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