Vultures Eat French Tourist Killed in Fatal Pyrenees Cliff Plunge

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Vultures Eat French Tourist Killed in Fatal Pyrenees Cliff Plunge

By Fiona Keating International Business Times EXCERPT:

May 4, 2013 3:47 PM GMT



A campaign against Griffon vultures is gathering pace in France after it was revealed that the carrion eaters had devoured the body of a 52-year-old woman who fell to her death in the Pyrenees.

Major Didier Pericou of the gendarmerie said the woman had fallen down a 300-metre slope while taking a short cut walking with two friends.

"There were only bones, clothes and shoes left," he told The Times.

"They took 45 to 50 minutes to eat the body."

French farmers are now demanding the right to shoot the protected birds after attacks on sheep and cows.

The birds no longer have their diet of carcasses because European health and safety regulations now force breeders to burn dead animals.

The Pyrenees population of Griffon vultures has apparently been affected by an EC ruling that due to danger of BSE transmission, no dead animals must be left on the fields.
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HOLY CRAP!
 

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will certainly cut down on funeral costs....Didn't know vultures transmitted BSE though.

But I am sure there is no shortage on stupid tourists...
 
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Yeah, watching your step is apparently important.
I had no idea vultures could or would strip a body that fast.
 

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And we should get rid of all the sharks because they would do the same thing in the oceans. What rubbish!
 
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So, then, man is only at the top of the food chain while alive...
 

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Note how even this problem was caused by government. Lol! The irony is that man makes regulations to protect the environment and the environment bites the "protecting" hand.
 

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:shooter:It makes me mad when people want to punish animals for doing what nature designed them to do. Vultures serve a purpose. A really useful purpose.

It's like when some idiot climbs in a lion cage in a zoo and gets killed. Then they kill the lion. If you are an idiot who climbs in the cage of a predator, you get what you deserve and should not punish the animal.
 

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At least vultures wait until you're dead.
 

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Fish gotta swim. Vultures gotta eat.
 

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