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**Genus ''Trigonoceps''
**Genus ''Trigonoceps''
:::[[White-headed vulture]], ''Trigonoceps occipitalis''
:::[[White-headed vulture]], ''Trigonoceps occipitalis''
==Threats==
Several species of African vultures are classified as vulnerable or endangered by the ICUN, with a large part<ref>https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/conl.12182</ref> of the blame due to the poisoning of animal carcasses that were originally meant to control lion, hyena, or other predation on livestock<ref>http://www.livingwithlions.org/lion-poisoning.html</ref><ref>https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/08/poisoning-africa-kenya-maasai-pesticides-lions-poachers-conservationists/</ref>. Diclofenac, for example, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat cattle, nearly wiped out three Asian species<ref>https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vultures-crisis-poachers-and-poison-threaten-nature-s-garbage-disposers/</ref>. In a more ominous turn, poachers have recognized the fact that circling vultures will alert game wardens to the their presence, and will lace the carcasses with lethal amounts of poison such as strychnine, cyanide, or concentrated insectacides in a deliberate mass-killing<ref>https://www.namibian.com.na/index.php?id=112821&page=archive-read</ref><ref>https://www.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=the-race-to-save-africas-vultures</ref>. In June, 2019 a count of 547 vultures were found dead near three elephant carcasses in Botswana, with well over 400 of them the critically-endangered [[white-backed vulture]] (''Gyps africanus'')<ref>https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48717018</ref><ref>https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/21/africa/botswana-vultures-endangered-elephants-intl-hnk/index.html</ref>.
==References==
==References==