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[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 43 points 2 years ago (5 children)

They may be gross, but so is having rotten corpses sitting in the open. By getting rid of those corpses they are doing us a solid, so turkey vultures are cool in my book. The only animal that's profoundly not cool is mosquitos, they're a worthless species.

[–] soloner@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wouldn't microorganisms eat the carcass away either way?

[–] TheSaneWriter@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago

Microorganisms disintegrate the corpse into foul-smelling goop that is highly infectious and stains anything it touches. I'll take the vulture over that.

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