Jackal vs. Ostrich Egg vs. Vulture | National Geographic

here we are on the Serengeti Plain in
Africa where an ostrich is abandoned in
a and a hungry jackal means them make a
meal out of it what we’ve got here is a
highly motivated animal trying and
failing to figure out this culinary
conundrum it’s just a little too big a
little too slippery a little too
everything for the jackal there’s three
pounds of food in there and it’s gonna
stay in there right not if this Egyptian
vulture has anything to do with it
these birds are always on the lookout
for edible orbs and jackal proof
packaging ostrich eggs are an important
source of protein and this vulture has a
strategy to get at its contents the
Egyptian vulture is one of the few birds
in the world to figure out how to use a
stone as a tool some scientists feel
that this isn’t intelligence so much is
highly evolved instinct whatever it is
it works the vulture finally cracks a
hole big enough for its beak the
vultures one step closer to Meal Time
than the jackal but it’s not home free
yet you see here on the Serengeti the
sound of a cracked egg shell is like a
news flash the word is out and other
diners are ready to line up
a tawny Eagle shows up to share in the
bounty but an even bigger customer is
about to appear check out this lapid
faced vulture would you want to mess
with his bird at nearly four feet tall
it’s the largest most aggressive vulture
on the Serengeti when it comes to a food
fight like this pecking order is
strictly observed the biggest bird gets
the booty