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Health challenges faced by the vulture. a Vultures are confronted with a wide variety of carcass-derived microbes (b) that pose serious pathogenic risks to non-scavenging species. c Different potential microbiome-mediated defence mechanisms account for the vulture’s ability to tolerate and reduce the health-risk potential that a carcass represents as it passes through its digestive system
