All over the world, wherever there are large numbers of herbivores, either wild such as buffaloes and antelopes or domestic such as sheep and cows, you will also find birds that feed off their corpses.On the La Rhune Massif as throughout the Basque Country, these carrion-eating birds keepthe mountains clean They remove carcasses, thereby preventing epidemics from spreading. They have been described as epidemiological dead-ends. Each species has a particular role: one eats the soft parts, another the harder parts such as the tendons and skin, and another the bones.
