Can a bird that symbolizes death help the living catch criminals? In this informative and accessible talk, forensic anthropologist Lauren Pharr shows us how vultures impact crime scenes — and the assistance they can provide to detectives investigating murders. (This talk contains graphic images.)
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Guys..
This is the first video for me in Ted channel.. how can achieve the best benefits ?
You have a lot of catching up to do.
Just wow
I thought Tammy Faye Baker was dead.
I don’t trust women putting full makeup
What an idiotic comment
I bet you prefer the “natural look” like what Kim Kardashian wears huh?
Big Gus will Kim’s makeup is not that heavy I think… although IMO she have one of the most disgusting body shapes I’ve ever seen… she’s beyond fake but who cares her body brings millions
Maybe the movie man set up color saturation a bit too much?
Indeed Marie, and what is scary is the amount of shitheads that agrees with him!
WHAT ARE THOOOOSE
At first I thought she was considering enlisting vultures into the FBI
I wish
That would be awesome
I so agree, Sarah!
She’s a great speaker!
This is why I love vultures! People see them as filthy creatures, but I see them as powerful birds that can withstand diseases and viruses. Great video!! #ilovevultures
“Mom, Dad. Should I continue to study vulture eating habits?”
“Carri-on, Lauren. Carri-on.”
Oooh sharp.
Bank of mom and dad funding the forever student. At least she’s not a social justice warrior socialist trying to control people based on victimization.
Somewhere, Gary Larson just smiled. Good joke.
Garish Girl – I imagine that would be so as this video is the Pharr side of the story.
THE OWL DID IT
Owls
Everyone is fond of owls
Except for mice and shrews
And Simon Cowells
And you know why they come for you
The owls in your dressing room
The owls in your gravy
Even if you hide at sea
There’s owls in the navy
Simon Cowell, your days are numbered
Owls will get you while you slumber
In the night they’ll come for you
And tear your crazy legs in two
‘Cause you’re the king of the beavers
The king of the beavers
You cannot deceive us
And you can’t fool owls
This is a re-upload but I don’t even care because I love vultures that much.
Purrfectly interesting! Didnt waste my time listening, rarely do with TED talk! Awesome!!
‘Warning: This talk involves graphic images.’
Yes~! Not another special snowflake whining, but something actually cool again! Huzzah!
i hate to break it to you but that kind of warning and this kind of warning are the same kind and it’s pretty ridiculous to give a damn lol
TED is running out of materials
who did her make up? omg
Mother Nugget
… and the helmet hair.
Vulture won’t help to solve crime! Everybody knows Spider-Man put him in prison… 🙂
You people are just figuring this out? Vultures have been used in conjunction to solve murders for a very long time. Why is this a ted talk?
Shes talking like shes explaining to kids and is rambaling a lot of usless filler cause the subject is too simple to have a 10m talk
It’s a story.
A man committed a murder under a tree.
The police arrested the accused.
The guilty was sent to court.
The judge said to the members of the jury:
The only witness about murder is the tree.
I’m going to send a detective.
And to ask who did the murder.
The criminal said to judge. Judge, the tree can not speak.
The judge answered. When the detective comes back, we will know that the tree would speak or not speak.
But, Judge, this tree is far away. A man can not go back before two days.
The judge answered to the criminal: Look, the tree spoke.
“And if whatever trees upon the earth were pens and the sea [was ink], replenished thereafter by seven [more] seas, the words of Allah would not be exhausted. Indeed, Allah is Exalted in Might and Wise.” (The Noble Quran. Surah Luqman. Verse 27)
French : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVY8pwx9B74
English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omh4oG8T_Fw
German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXWTxB6oS6I
How vultures can help solve crimes?…No, how about we leave the animals alone as they do to us in the wilderness. We don’t need animals for health, survival, sustenance, nor self defense, therefore live vegan as there is no valid reasonable nor logical justification for needlessly harming/using animals anymore. We can simply change policies among our society to help prevent most, not all, crimes that are 100% preventable like the eradicating the drug war by veganizing, legalizing, taxing, and regulating all drugs, eradication of animal agriculture and adopting the vegan ideology among society eliminating speciesism which leads to violence among our own species, etc. If anyone disagrees with any points/arguments I’ve made, make a counterargument. Furthermore, we don’t need vultures to solve anything as we already have modern technology to solve most, not all, crimes and we simply need to continue to evolve the technology to be able to solve all crimes.