GREEN, MEAN, AND UNSEEN

Vultures can eat carcasses infected with anthrax without getting sick. Biological hazard suits included.

✓ TRUE FACT
Vultures have extremely acidic stomachs (often around pH ~1) that destroy many pathogens in rotten meat. While that doesn’t make them “immune to everything,” it greatly lowers disease risk from scavenging compared to most animals.

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