Lappet-Faced Vulture
Lappet-Faced Vulture
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| ミミヒダハゲワシ | |||
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| AKA | Nubian Vulture, Cinereous Vulture, Eurasian Black Vulture
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| Romaji | Mimihidahagewashi
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| Debut | Kemono Friends Festival | ||
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| Scientific Name | Torgos tracheliotos
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| Distribution | Africa
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| Diet | Carnivore
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| Avg. Lifespan | 20-50 years
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| Read More | Lappet-faced vulture
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| Lappet-Faced Vulture | Festival | KF3 | Gallery |
The Lappet-Faced Vulture is a type of bird Friend that appeared in Kemono Friends Festival.
Appearance
Lappet-Faced Vulture has a pixie cut with light pink hair color. The tip of her forehand bang has patches of light lilac, yellow and dark grey; the coloration resembles the species' beak. A pair of blackish wings with white underside pattern grow at each side of her head as the typical feature of bird Friends. She has wine red eyes and 'stripes' around the lower eyelids.
She wears a dark indigo tank top underneath a sleaveless, brown leather jacket with a collar decorated with white-fading-into-grey feather. She has one leather straps on each of her upper arm and a pair of fingerless gloves. She wear denim shorts and a white belt; a pair of white leather chaps and white boots like a cowboy. Her bird tail is dark brown.
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In Real Life
Lappet-Faced Vulture is a large scavenging bird. It can be found in habitats like open grassland and savanna in Sub-Sahara Africa, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman. The bird’s bare, pink head and large, fleshy folds of skin on the sides of its neck are their unique features. It has dark feather with wingspan 2.6 m (8.5 ft). It is approximately from 100 to 105 cm (39.5 to 41.5 in.) in height and weighs up to 13.6 kg (30 lbs.)
The vulture feeds mainly on large carcasses or remains. It is also known to hunt for young or weak preys including retiles, fish, birds and mammals. Being the strongest vulture and having a powerful beak, it can tear through tough mammal hide the other vultures cannot penetrate. Therefore, it is usually the first vulture to feed. It has been observed apparently raiding flamingo colonies for their chicks and eggs. Different from other vultures, the lappet-faced vulture does not find carrion through smell but watch other vultures’ movement to locate the food.
Its population is decreasing due to human activities such as disturbances of habitats and nesting sites, ingestion of poisons that are set out for mammalian carnivores to protect domestic cattle. In some instances, the poison is set by poachers to kill vultures which will alert authorities about their illegal killings of protected species. It is estimated there are about 8500 to 9000 individuals in the wild.
Trivia
- She was incorrectly labelled as a Cinereous Vulture on the official website, until corrected in a tweet as well as on the website in August of 2017.
- Lappet-Faced Vulture is a kind of Old World vulture belonging to the bird order Accipitriformes, which also includes eagles, kites, buzzards and hawks. It however is not closely related to New World vultures, and does not have a good sense of smell that some members of that group do.