My go is for the Buzzard, it would sure as hell make desert trips and heat waves seem a lot less worrying and paranoiac.

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    Sorry that’s fucking gross. OP wants to walk through a world of rotting meat and unscavenged carcasses. Seriously. Read up on what happened to vultures in India when they gave all their cattle Diclofenac.

    Cultures might not be pretty but they are fucking awesome and entirely necessary. Why peeps gotta hate on the cleaning staff I don’t know.

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      I agree, but got different reasons.

      OP went with “less paranoic” as their barrier of choice, whereas the “tick” and “mosquito” choices are actual posts that are dangerous.

      Personally I fall in the mosquito camp. I don’t know if anything depending on them specifically. And even if there is, I’m ok with sacrificing them too.

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        Yeah, I think culturally we just don’t like things that remind us of dead things, and if a lot of scavengers are around, it means something’s dead or about to be.

        I’m glad people are coming around to realizing how essential (and honestly really cool) they are, as much as I’d never wanna kiss or even smell one. 😉

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        Bearded vultures swallow bones, often shattered after they drop them onto rocks from great heights, but sometimes whole. They are so badass.

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          Very awesome! Some quick reading says the bones are actually their primary diet. They’d often rather have the bones than the meat. Talk about a biological niche.

          And it can chomp down some huge looking bones!