Marabou stork crocodile hatchlings and eggs, and lizards and snakes. Though known to eat putrid and seemingly inedible foods, these storks may sometimes wash food in water to remove soil. When feeding on carrion, marabou frequently follow vultures, which are better equipped with hooked bills for tearing through carrion meat and may wait for the vultures to cast aside a piece, steal a piece of meat directly from the vulture or wait until the vultures are done. As with vultures, marabou storks perform an important natural function by cleaning areas via their ingestion of carrion and waste. Increasingly, marabous have become dependent
Big Bird to the cassowary; he replied, "I'm more of a condor." On the January 23, 1976 episode of "Hollywood Squares", Big Bird was asked what kind of bird he is and said he was a lark, causing host Peter Marshall to crack up. In the film "Don't Eat the Pictures", Osiris calls Big Bird an ibis. Big Bird appeared in a series 11 episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", in which he declares he is a "golden condor". Zoologist Mike Dickison suggested in his popular Pechakucha talk that Big Bird represents a unique species that evolved from the whooping crane. Big Bird