Wednesday, November 09, 2005

Condor Feeding Habits

This article from the NYT suggests that California Condors have changed their diet in the past (megafauna to beached sea mammals, then to beef) and maybe should change again.

The hypothesis dovetails well with the theories of the grand old man of ReWilding, Paul Martin, in his book Twilight of the Mammoths. He notes that Condors disappeared from the Grand Canyon when the megafauna vanished, but hung on in California.

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