Bathing behavior and waterhole importance of white-rumped vulture conservation in the Sigur Plateau, Tamil Nadu, Southern India.

A.Samson[1a], Ramakrishanan.B[1b], Renuka.S[2], Ravi.P[3] ,Ramasubramanian.S[4]
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Bathing is a unique and important character for vultures, it play a major role in maintaining
vulture hygienic as well as their living. There are eight bathing sites that were recorded around the
Sigur plateau, out of which six of them were streams and two of them were shallow water pools.
Totally twenty bathing observations were recorded from 2012 to 2013 during White-rumped vulture
ecological study. Out of twenty basking observations fourteen of them were top of the trees and six
were on rock surfaces. This paper is an eye opener to bring out bathing and basking behaviors of
White-rumped vultures and important of waterholes and their conservation in India.
Keywords: Bathing, Basking, waterhole, White-rumped vultures, Sigur plateau