00:00 A woman fell to her death while hiking in the Pyrenees and within 45 minutes, local griffin vultures had picked her clean, dispelling the myth that vultures only eat rotten flesh.

04:01 Vultures are protected from humans, but their food supply is being burned by farmers, leading to vultures picking clean the dead bodies of humans who slip and fall in the Pyrenees in just 45 minutes; in the Himalayas, the lack of vultures has led to the Zoroastrians and Buddhists having to ship dead bodies out of the country for sky burials, and this decline in vultures is due to the use of the drug dichlofenac by ranchers, which has caused kidney failure in vultures and wiped out three different species.

08:06 Vultures play a vital ecological role by breaking the chain of infectious diseases through their ability to digest and eliminate diseased carcasses, and their quick consumption of rotting flesh makes them nature's cleanup crew.

11:57 Vultures have featherless heads and necks as a sanitary measure to prevent their feathers from getting covered in blood and guts, and they also urinate on their own feet to kill bacteria and keep themselves cool.

15:37 Vultures are known for vomiting in times of stress as a defensive mechanism, either to quickly escape or to distract predators by offering them the vomit as a decoy.

19:35 Vulture vomit is highly acidic, with pH levels between one and two, making it more corrosive than acid rain and allowing vultures to eat bacteria and disease without getting sick, which helps break the chain of infectious disease in nature.

23:47 A forensic study found that a group of American black vultures took care of a body in five hours, which surprised researchers due to the length of time it took for the vultures to arrive and skeletonize the body, and the spatial pattern of the discarded body parts could potentially aid in future forensics.

27:41 The host reads some listener mail about a bartender who received terrible tips from a group of guys during a bachelor party, but continued to provide excellent service, and eventually one of the guys came back and left a generous tip in an envelope.

31:16 A bartender receives a $2,000 tip from a customer who had been mistreating him all weekend as a test of his kindness.