Sharon De Paoli, Reputation Unjustified (Animal & Nature 2021)

People see vultures and only see death and ugliness but if you look a bit closer there is a rare beauty. Their higher purpose of cleaning up the dead helps remove disease from their environments and allows humans and animals alike, to benefit.

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