A scientific team found that vultures have different diet patterns depending on the place where they breed, regardless of the available resources.

This indicates that they have different “tastes” by cultural transmission among individuals of the same population. Until now, it was believed that vultures were opportunistic species that consumed any type of carrion without indiscriminately.

Population expansions of successful species have gained importance as a major conservation and management concern. The success of these ‘winners’ is widely attributed to their high adaptability and behavioural plasticity, which allow them to efficiently use opportunities provided by human-modified habitats. However, the individual components within populations is critical for a better understanding of the main ecological mechanisms related to the success of winning species. Here, the spatial...