The New Yorker: Letter from Nepal:Consider the Vulture by Written by Meera Subramanian, Photographs by Alisha Vasudev

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The New Yorker: Letter from Nepal:Consider the Vulture

written by meera subramanian, photographs by alisha vasudev

Feb 16, 2024

Location: Nepal

Summary

We think of scavengers as gross—but they clean up nature’s messes, and they need saving.

This article was supported in part by a grant from the National Geographic Society. Tulsi Rauniyar contributed reporting.

For nearly twenty years, Yam Bahadur Nepali has been known as the “vulture chef” of Jatayu Restaurant. Every week, Nepali, a strong and stocky forty-one-year-old, hitches animal carcasses to a truck and drags them into a clearing near Chitwan National Park, in the lowlands of Nepal. Then hundreds of vultures gather for a feast. A group of feeding vultures, which is known as a wake, can transform a hulking carcass into a bare skeleton in the time it takes a human to fix a pot of rice.

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Consider the Vulture
We think of scavengers as gross—but they clean up nature’s messes, and they need saving.
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