{"id":144753,"date":"2022-08-24T23:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/how-vultures-can-eat-rotting-flesh-without-getting-sick"},"modified":"2022-08-24T23:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T04:25:32","slug":"how-vultures-can-eat-rotting-flesh-without-getting-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/how-vultures-can-eat-rotting-flesh-without-getting-sick","title":{"rendered":"How Vultures Can Eat Rotting Flesh Without Getting Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-vultures-can-eat-rotting-flesh-without-getting-sick.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2014 \ud83d\ude17<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Vultures\u2019 faces and large intestines are covered with bacteria that is toxic to most other creatures, but these birds of prey have evolved a strong gut that helps them not get sick from feasting on rotting flesh, according to a new study.<\/p>\n<p>In the first analysis of bacteria living on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/29371-griffon-vultures-devour-hikers-body.html\">vultures<\/a>, the study\u2019s researchers found that these scavengers are laden with flesh-degrading Fusobacteria and poisonous Clostridia. As bacteria decompose a dead body, they excrete toxic chemicals that make the carcass a perilous meal for most animals. But vultures often wait for decay to set in, giving them easy access to dead animals with tough skins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2014 \ud83d\ude17 Vultures\u2019 faces and large intestines are covered with bacteria that is toxic to most other creatures, but these birds of prey have evolved a strong gut that helps them not get sick from feasting on rotting flesh, according to a new study. In the first analysis of bacteria living on vultures, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}