Vultures are often portrayed as an ominous sign of imminent death, circling high above as they wait for an injured individual below to die. But in reality, that's not the case, experts say.
"I've never heard of an actual instance of them circling a dying human. There probably aren't that many dying humans out there to get anyway," said Chris McClure at The Peregrine Fund, who leads the Global Raptor Impact Network (GRIN), a tool to gather data on birds of prey.
