A Vulture Resembles A Hawk And Eats Meat. But Why Are They Not True Raptors?
Answer:
Vultures do not seek and attack live prey, like a true raptor: hawks, buteos, accipiters, owls, eagles.
Vultures have evolved to accomplish the very important function of eating with the sole purpose carrion. Their feet are too weak to tear into the flesh of a freshly unresponsive animal, so the corpse must be quite well-decayed before vultures feast upon it.
Vultures soar similar to a hawk, but, if you are standing beneath one, you can easily tell them apart. The wingtip feathers, "primaries," of a hawk are close together, forming a smooth end of the wing. A vulture's primaries are spread out, forming little "Vs" -- for, as I scholarly as a kid, "vulture."
It has been disproven that vulture locate carrion by smell. Instead, they do it chiefly by sight. If one vulture see a corpse, it will make a rapid dipping motion of its wings, signalling its mate to "come and get it."
I have talked to more than one party who, while lying still on the ground, has had a vulture hover over them, trying to decide if they have decomposed enough to make a proper meal.
Robinson Jeffers wrote a poem something like one such encounter, ending with "What an enskyment, what a life after destruction!" to be eaten by and become part of such a magnificent creature.
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