A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for exposing dead bodies to carrion birds (known as excarnation). In Parsi Zoroastrian tradition, exposure of the dead is considered to be an individual\u27s final act of charity, providing the birds with food from what would otherwise be destroyed. This funeral practice is now in jeopardy with the disappearance of vultures from some parts of India. Additional Information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Silence http://www.independent.co.uk/node/6669506https://uknowledge.uky.edu/world_yosa_semple/1007/thumbnail.jp
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The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) has a wingspan of 68–72 inches and an average weight of 3.1 poun...
Between 1955 and 1999 more than 33 aircraft (27 military and other civil) were written off due to co...
Technological advancements have increasingly led to the alienation of human emotion from physical ex...
A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure built by Zoroastrians for exposing dead bodies to...
India - Bombay [Mumbai], Parsee 'Tower of Silence' where dead are placed to be eaten by vulturesColo...
The Parsis, members of one of India's oldest faiths, are fighting to keep alive their centuries old ...
Zoroastrian Tower of silence [near] Tehran, F.G.C. Persia [Iran], 1933Also called the Towers of Sile...
India - Bombay [Mumbai], 'Tower of Silence' Parsee burial towerColorVolume 131, Page
The vulture decline was first noticed in 1999 (Prakash, 1999 as cited in Prakash,et al, 2003), but a...
Gyps vulture populations across the Indian subcontinent collapsed in the 1990s and continue to decli...
Vultures are the keystone species and very important scavengers responsible for the maintenance of b...
In this article we report a mass poisoning of vultures in the Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe. ...
This project is a monument for a major automobile manufacturer in Tokyo, Japan. The monument stands ...
In India, death is considered one of the most important stages of the whole human process.And the tr...
'Their funerals take a most hideous form. Owing to a lack of fuel with which to cremate the corpses,...
The turkey vulture (Cathartes aura) has a wingspan of 68–72 inches and an average weight of 3.1 poun...
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