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In Peru, Vultures Go High-Tech to Fight Garbage
Once reviled by the community, nature’s best scavengers have become a welcome sight in the capital city of Lima.
Attention, people of Lima, Peru: The city’s vultures would like everyone to know that in the battle between people and trash, the birds are siding with humans—and have always done so. In a dramatic video released this month, the carrion birds “voiced” their allegiance while showing grotesque images of the garbage, water and air pollution that’s plagued Peru for hundreds of years.