Vultures are very greedy and ravenous; they will often eat so much that they are not able to move or fly, but sit quite stupidly and insensible.

One of them will often, at a single meal, devour the entire body of an albatross (bones and all), which is a bird nearly as large as the vulture itself.

They will smell a dead carcass at a very great distance, and will soon surround and devour it.
Vultures lay two eggs at a time and only once a year: they build their nests on the same kind of places as eagles do, so that it is very hard to find them.
What does the vulture resemble the eagle in?
A.In size and in some of its habits.

Q.In what does it differ from the eagle?
A.In having a neck and head either naked or covered with short down.

Q.What is the difference in the manner in which they feed?
A.The eagle seeks its food over hill and valley, and lives entirely on prey which he takes alive, while the vulture seeks out dead and putrid carcasses.