[TheForge] OT- buzzards and tungsten

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

On 10/24/2010 10:32 AM, Andy Gladish wrote:
> So my wife and I had a great time looking up black buzzards on the web-
> interesting that they don't have the capability to smell minute amounts of
> ethyl mercaptan, so they depend on turkey vultures to help them find food,
> and then they chase their benefactors away.
> Since vultures are so sensitive to E.M., they have been helpful in finding
> propane leaks- I still think they circle near a propane link because
> someone's gonna die...

Perhaps they have learned to associate the 2, and listen for the BANG.
But i think they are just extremely sharp eyed and are just looking for 
the flies
that are attracted to both dead bodies and the smell of propane leaks.

I'll have to look for our turkey vultures when i next fill the propane 
tanks.
They come by twice a day to check and see if we are dead yet.
> Also, we just returned from Mexico. When I was there forty years ago, a Bano
> (ban-yo) was a place to clean up, while a toilet was politely called a W.C.-
> a water closet.
> Searching Google for "WC tungsten" returned some results from jewelry
> companies with no explanation of what the "WC" meant, also one result
> describing how a woman's expensive WC tungsten rings had been knocked into
> the toilet (WC) by her cat.
> Typical Sunday Morning...
> Andy G.
>
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