Oriental white-backed vultures

Meteyer, C.U., Rideout, B.A., Gilbert, M. et al. (2005). Pathology and proposed pathophysiology of diclofenac poisoning in free-living and experimentally exposed oriental white-backed vultures (G. bengalensis). J. Wildl. Dis. 41(4) 707-16. 

Given concerns about the environmental safety of these compounds, is there evidence that they interfere with local biotai The answer is clearly yes, as is evident from an example that comes from Asia, and concerns the relationship among the Oriental white-backed vulture Gyps benpaknsis) domestic catde, and the anti-inflammatory drug diclofenac. 

An unusual environmental issue has arisen in Pakistan. Here, there has been a dramatic decline in the numbers of Oriental white-backed vultures (Gyps ben-galensis) and in other vulture species. In one area, the decline in the... 

R. E. Green, M. A. Taggart, K. R. Senacha, B. Raghavan, D. J. Pain, Y. Jhala and R. Cuthbert, Rate of decline of the oriental white-backed vulture population in India estimated from a survey of diclofenac residues in carcases of ungulates, Biol. Lett., 2007, 3, 90 93. 

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