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Published online 19 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030616-14
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Vet drug blamed for vulture death
Cow painkiller may be toxic to scavenging birds.
A massive vulture die-off in India may be caused by a veterinary drug present in cattle flesh, hints a new study.
For over 200 years, the vultures disposed of the dead at the Towers of Silence, a Parsi burial site that sits atop Malabar Hill in Mumbai, India.
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