Vultures like to sit down to a good meal, but unlike other animals they are quite specific about what’s on the menu. These rather ugly birds only eat the meat of dead animals, so they can be tricky dinner guests.

De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust defines a vulture restaurant "as a specific site where animal carcasses, both wild animals of any shape or size are provided as an artificial source for vultures to provide a feeding haven for vultures where uncontaminated and safe food is supplied on a regular basis"

This restaurant we found in Golden Gate National Park, in Drakensberg area in South Africa.

It was a bit scary to be surrounded by more than 50 vultures just after/ before they had been feeding of some dead animals.  When circling in the air a group of vultures is called a kettle.

A Cape Vulture average length is about 1 m with a wingspan of about 2.4 m and a body weight of 9.4 kg.

South Africa October 2008  (C) Sim1