Vultures - Photographing the Antiheroes of Our Ecosystems | Exposure

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Published 2016-01-12

Photographer Charlie Hamilton James describes the emotional experience of photographing vultures for National Geographic—from placing a camera inside a carcass to get a bird's-eye view of a feeding frenzy to discovering vulture parts for sale in illegal markets.
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All Comments (21)

@michaelweston8304 5 years ago

This guy was about to cry for the vultures, he truly loves helping these animals
@SuperGreatSphinx 5 years ago

"Vultures are the most righteous of birds: they do not attack even the smallest living creature." ― Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus
@Joeyblondewolf2 5 years ago

I've always loved vultures, people always called them ugly birds but their beautiful to me. This guy has a good heart ❤️🕊
@blakereneehope 5 years ago

Vultures: The only animal to be kind enough to wait for you to die. They are visibly striking in how they resemble pre-historical species, and survived the asteroid that ended the dinosaur.
@swapanjain892 8 years ago

never thought about vultures in this way before!!!glad to get the perspective from the other side.
@StackRunItUp 5 years ago

Yup the animals that keep our streets clean from dead rabbits and squirrels, antiheroes. They’re more heroic than any other animal LITERALLY
@helinituhhh 4 years ago

I taught my niece that vultures are the “cleaners” of nature and they help the environment and animals to not get sick by eating decomposing carcasses, and now she absolutely loves vultures. Hope their numbers recover soon.
@patman_for_sure 5 years ago

He seemed so sad at the end It hurt quite a bit
@ItsFreakoBaby 8 years ago

People won't understand till it's too late...😔
@ZeldaFeb 6 years ago

That's crazy I never would've thought vultures would be at risk of extinction
@nathanielcressler3262 5 years ago

Vultures may have survived an asteroid, but they won’t survive from humans. It’s sad 😢
@boxmonster33 5 years ago

Stuff breaks my heart , slaughtering any animal for no real value sickens me
@fantabulousfox4442 6 years ago

They’re like the janitors of nature 😂😂😂
@wtx23j 6 years ago

Vultures are important to the world, without them the whole ecosystem will be ruined
@cftyler5041 5 years ago

This mans emotions towards not just vultures but animals in general is soooooooo heartwarming
@LinkaBellGAME 2 years ago

I had no idea people were doing this to vultures, thank you for bringing this issue to light... it's really heart breaking seeing a keystone species dwindle away
@GamalKevin 5 years ago

Seriously, the thumbnail made the bird looks badass...
@princecharming5863 5 years ago

This dude really made me feel sad about vultures...
@TheHPExperiment 5 years ago

This actually made me cry. Vultures are one of my favorite animals. I love them so much. I always have. They are so important and underappreciated.
@prince-qc4dz 4 years ago

Vultures:the real hero of our environment which clean it