The highest flying animal on earth

The highest flying animal on earth is the black-and-white vulture. The black-and-white vulture is a large African vulture belonging to the family Accipitridae and the genus Vulture. It can fly at an altitude of 11,000 meters. It is one of the highest-altitude birds known to mankind. This giant bird that lives in central and southern Africa generally hovers around 6,000 meters in search of food with the help of thermal air currents on the ground. The black and white vulture broke the flight altitude record because in 1973, a plane flying at an altitude of 11,000 meters crashed into Caught a black and white vulture.

Black and white vultures can fly very high, about 11,000 meters, making them the highest flying birds on Earth. The black-and-white vulture usually flies at an altitude of 6,000 meters. It is the highest flying bird known and can fly at an altitude of 11,000 meters. Their hemoglobin α-D subunit has a high affinity for oxygen, allowing them to breathe in oxygen more efficiently in the low pressure areas of the high troposphere.

Black and white vultures are carnivores that feed on carrion. Typically feed on African ungulates such as blue wildebeest, plains zebra and Thomson's gazelle, and will occasionally eat livestock in close proximity to humans.

Black and white vultures can fly at speeds of up to 35 kilometers per hour and search for food up to 150 kilometers away from their nests. Their nests are built on rocks or in acacia trees. When the thermals rise two hours after sunrise, they leave their nests and forage on the plains. They can wait for days for predators to leave the carcass.

The highest flying bird on earth: the black-and-white vulture, a species of the genus Vulture. The highest known flying bird can fly at an altitude of 11,000 meters. (Guinness World Records)

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