Encounter with a vulture

This is a close up of a vulture that came really close to the boundary of the enclosure that they are kept in at the San Diego Zoo. Surprisingly they don’t look that intimidating from a distance, they are like a hybrid of Flamengos/Ostriches that can fly! This young vulture came really close and I got to zoom in and see how rugged they really are, those beaks sure can shred through flesh like a razor sharp knife. BTW, I could tell he was a young vulture by his roughly round & dark head. As humans age, their hair turns grey and for some of us it starts to shed ;-), for vultures their skull starts to turn more red and will lose its round shape. For this particular fellow, you can see how a bump is starting to form on top of his head. Here is another shot of the same guy in what looks like him looking right at me :

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