Chris Merkord Posted April 22, 2015 Posted April 22, 2015 Vultures surf on heat from power plants By Emily Conover 21 April 2015 12:15 pm Science | DOI: 10.1126/science.aab2501 http://news.sciencemag.org/latin-america/2015/04/vultures-surf-heat-power-plants Scientists have shown that vultures use air currents from power plants to get a lift. Researchers surveyed six power plants in the central Amazon in Brazil and found black vultures or turkey vultures soaring above the plants in nearly 80% of the surveys, they report in the current issue of The Wilson Journal of Ornithology.
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