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Old 02-04-2007, 12:10 PM posted to rec.birds,uk.rec.gardening
Sacha Sacha is offline
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Default who took a dead starling?

On 2/4/07 11:26, in article , "Tom"
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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


That's the one - don't think I'll opt for it, though!
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