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In this installment of Dorling Kindersley's Amazing Animals series, Henry the animated lizard must run for his life to escape the birds of prey. These birds, though beautiful, are hunters who must kill to eat. Their eyes can spot a target up to a mile away, and they are experts at flying who can dive at over 100 miles per hour. Vultures can soar for hours, and one has even been known to collide with an airplane at 37,000 feet. While it discusses birds of all sizes, this 24-minute video pays special attention to the vultures, who can pick an antelope clean in 20 minutes.
So-called garbage men, vultures are believed to eat as much meat as all mammalian meat eaters of the savanna combined. In one scene, a vulture who has eaten too much hops along the ground trying in vain to take flight. We also watch in gruesome fascination as several hundred vultures swoop down on a carcass. For this reason, Birds of Prey may be disturbing for younger viewers. --David Horiuchi
