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ZombieHomeslice t1_ja5j8t0 wrote

Reply to comment by soulsista04us in I found a bat in my pool. He’s very much alive. I set him in the sun to dry out away from my dog by Handicapreader

>Then there's the question of what to do with your corpse. I mean, sure, burying it is the right thing to do. But the fucking virus can survive in a corpse for years. You could kill every rabid animal on the planet today, and if two years from now, some moist, preserved, rotten hunk of used-to-be brain gets eaten by an animal, it starts all over.

The stomach acids of vultures kills rabies. They're an incredibly important part of the ecosystem for this reason. They can eat most any diseased thing and poop it out sterile. Rabies is scary and vultures are awesome.

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addsomezest t1_ja5zf1y wrote

There’s a great quote in the show, “Bones” where one Doctor states that battery acid is akin to a mild salsa for a vulture.

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Sesamechama t1_ja6nx0c wrote

Vultures are hardcore! 😳 I have a newfound appreciation and deep respect for them.

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phatbob198 t1_ja5moaw wrote

And then I said, "Supposing you brought the vulture's stomach acid inside the body: you can - which you can do - either through the skin er... uh... in some other way? And I think you said you're gonna test that too... sounds interesting."

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