{"id":203558,"date":"2025-01-11T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/turkey-vulture-the-bird-that-vomits-acid-up-to-10-feet-and-poops-antiseptic-onto-its-legs"},"modified":"2025-01-11T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T16:28:23","slug":"turkey-vulture-the-bird-that-vomits-acid-up-to-10-feet-and-poops-antiseptic-onto-its-legs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/turkey-vulture-the-bird-that-vomits-acid-up-to-10-feet-and-poops-antiseptic-onto-its-legs","title":{"rendered":"Turkey vulture: The bird that vomits acid up to 10 feet and poops antiseptic onto its legs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/turkey-vulture-the-bird-that-vomits-acid-up-to-10-feet-and-poops-antiseptic-onto-its-legs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What it eats:<\/strong> The carcasses of dead animals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why it\u2019s awesome: <\/strong>These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away \u2014 by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey vultures live in a range of habitats, including subtropical forests, shrublands and deserts. They have bald heads so that when they feast on carcasses, blood and guts don\u2019t get trapped in their feathers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What it eats: The carcasses of dead animals. Why it\u2019s awesome: These scavenger birds have an unexpected way of keeping predators away \u2014 by projectile vomiting stomach acid and semi-digested meat at their attackers. Turkey vultures live in a range of habitats, including subtropical forests, shrublands and deserts. They have bald heads so that when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203558","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}