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Old 02-04-2007, 11:26 AM posted to rec.birds,uk.rec.gardening
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Default who took a dead starling?

Sacha wrote:

Which is the Indian (I think) culture that does that? The leave the
bodies on top of very tall towers and the vultures go to work.....


Tibetan buddist , it's called "sky burial" and they just leave the chopped
up corpse on the mountainside.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_burial

I'd go for that, we are only meat.

Tom