Jackal vs. Ostrich Egg vs. Vulture | National Geographic

here we are on the Serengeti Plain in
Africa where an ostrich is abandoning a
and a hungry jackal means to make a meal
out of it
what we’ve got here is a highly
motivated animal trying
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 wheel
that this isn’t intelligence so much is
highly evolved in sight
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 this 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