Regina Barber
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Wait, human deaths?
And you said hundreds of thousands.
So today on the show, how human health is intertwined with scavenging animals.
You're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
Okay, John, so back to these vultures.
How exactly did their disappearance lead to hundreds of thousands of people dying?
And these vultures, they're not getting sick, so what's going on there?
This is making my acid reflux look like nothing.
I mean, it does sound like these vultures are essential for, like, sanitizing the environment.
I mean, that's very, very scary.
Okay, so this decline of vultures sets off these series of dominoes that, like, ultimately results in more people dying.
So I'm guessing other scavengers are doing maybe the same thing?
So what other scavengers have actually been studied?
Okay, hyenas, I mean, they get a bad rap in Lion King, but maybe they're awesome.