Two black vultures were feasting on a deer corpse by the road on my way into work (they got spooked by a car and retreated to the lamp post before i got a pic). My boss told me there’s named Dr. Graves who is a vulture scientist. Which fucking rules. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2020/09/04/meet-scientist-studying-vulture-guts-clues-disease-immunity/

Meet the Scientist Studying Vulture Guts for Clues to Disease Immunity We caught up with the Smithsonian's curator of birds for “Meet a SI-entist” to talk about what makes vultures lovable, curating the National smithsonianmag.com
he works in this building sometimes i think? i want to find him. and maybe marry himi want a bacteria that lives on vulture feathers named after mei love vultures so much especially black vultures they’re my favorites