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- Vultures aren't most people's favorite animal. But when they began dying in India, they set in motion a domino effect that spread disease and cost the government billions of dollars.
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The Parsi community in India raised alarm and helped move legislations to change the situations .
*Farsi
@@AaronGeoParsi is a religion (Zoroastrianism, with roots in ancient Persia). Farsi is the Persian/Iranian language.
It's not just dead livestock that have that waste removal problem - some parts of Indian society prefer 'sky burial' for human interment and that has also become a problem. There's an excellent 99% Invisible episode on it titled 'Towers of Silence'.
My feed is blessed with two Jaida videos in two hours! That "out of the woods" joke was top-tier.
The Basking Shark earrings are top notch.
Diclofenac is the active ingredient in my Voltarol pain gel.
So often, useful things, used carelessly, can also cause harm.
In that case, take care not to get eaten by vultures.
during the 199s, my wife was on Diclofenac for her back pain. It was so effective, that when she contracted Pneumonia (after we divorced) it suppressed the synptoms and she died of pneumonia in 2008.
Just a quick note about rabies - for the vast majority of the world rabies is fatal. However, there is an amazon tribe in Puru that seems to have a natural immunity in about 60 people. Also, there is the Milwaukee protocol which shows some promise in increasing survival rates in certain demographics.
Meloxican? The NSAID with the brand name Mobic? Good stuff, but slightly mispelled. It's meloxicaM
Technically rabies isn't always fatal in humans, but the subpopulation of humans who can survive it is very small and from a smaller Indigenous population.
*nice economy you have there*
*Be ashame if it was de-vulture-ized*
What did this have to do with the economy?
The 90s vibes of the background is crazy haha
Diclofenac is commonly prescribed in the US for pain, often used in eye drops for eye surgery, for example. It's a powerful anti-inflammatory but is noted for its numerous side-effects.
India is an amazing country. One billion people, and still they take care of the most diverse wildlife.
Jaida Elcock is pretty awesome. Hoping for more!
Very interesting. Great knowledge injection.
I thought a die-off of vultures might be their group name, like a murder of crows. Missed opportunity!
That's what I call vulture capitalisme.
This comment definitely wins the internet for the day 😂
Old and new world vultures are not related.
Everything living thing on planet Earth is related.
@@drg8687 well, yeah, but apart from being birds they aren't close at all. It's convergence.
Vultures? In this economy? 🤬
The loss of vultures affected the human population in a more direct way, too. There is a religion that insists that human bodies be given 'sky-burials', where bodies are left in special places where scavengers and such can remove the flesh from the skeleton, which, being clean, can then be interred. The temples for this faith used their rooves for this practice, and vultures were relied on to do most of the early work. They were quick and efficient at the job and, consequently highly revered by this religion.
When the vulture population crashed, it threw this religious community into chaos. The dead could not be buried or submerged, as they would pollute the elements of earth and water, nor could they be cremated: in fact, the element of fire is most sacred to this religion and the idea of burning the dead horrifies them for the desecration it would do to the sacred element.
The issue was that with vultures being too few to perform their task, corpses were building up on temple rooves, hanging around for a lot longer than normal, thus causing a serious issue. The leaders of this religion tried to come up with a way of speeding up the process, including the use of mirrors to raise the temperature of the sky cemetery and speed up the bacterial decay process. This plan was abandoned because it came perilously close to using fire to dispose of bodies, thus polluting it.
I hadn't heard about this issue for a while, so assumed they'd found a satisfactory solution. Now that the vulture population is recovering and back on funeral duties, I guess this religious group has breathed a collected sigh of relief. Their dead are getting the proper treatment once more, and religious disaster has been averted. It only goes to show that trophic cascades not only have effects on nature, it can also affect human culture, too.
India.
Meloxicam*
What if a species was endangered when it discovered would their be a conspiracy to hide it
Ecosystems aren't delicate they've be functional for millions of years. Most of dim a different species would fill the jabs often existing species
Rabies is not 100% fatal after symptom onset any more.
did you miss the word "untreated"?
@@MrKumbancha Yes I did.
@@jmr 👍
3rd to comment.
PLEASE SLOW DOWN!!!
In your 4:14 clip, you squeezed in as many words as the other SciShow hosts say in over 7 minutes. Closed captions cannot keep up with you. I cannot understand what you are saying.
Watch an Obama speech. Take a drag. Take a Valium... But please figure out how to slow down. I'm not amped up on Adderall enough to keep up with how fast you talk on camera.
Vultures had it coming tho😝😝😝
(This is a harmless comment and a joke)
(just for those who is unabled,you know,so called animal lovers)
They really did not. No animal does, and certainly not vultures
my bad,you are the better man.
sorry for not being a high-moral-animal-loving-unable-to-identify-a-joke guy like you😅😅😅
are u unable to identify a joke?🤔
@@DuanIsTrapped
His ability to identify a joke is better than your ability to create one.
@@wilianrodrigues5280 Here comes another one😅Who are you?What's your story,you love animal too?
HERE to show everybody you love animals,huh buddy?🤣🤣🤣