Starving vultures prey on live animals

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Perilous Times

Starving vultures prey on live animals*

From correspondents in Madrid

May 04, 2007 06:28am
Article from: Reuters

HUGE flocks of starving vultures have started attacking live animals in
northern Spain, officials in the city of Burgos said today.

In one incident, about 100 vultures killed a cow and her newborn calf, a
rancher from the Mena Valley said, according to the Spanish government's
office in Burgos, quoted by state news agency EFE.

Ranchers have complained that vultures started attacking livestock
several months ago when a feeding station set up in the Ordunte
mountains was closed by the neighbouring province of Vizcaya.

Vultures prefer to feed on the carcasses of dead animals, but carrion is
scarce in modern Spain.