species for rights to a kill. Their bills are exquisitely adapted to tearing animal flesh, and their digestive systems are specially suited to digesting rotting flesh. Condors were not known to have attacked live prey, and the diet of condors was found to have been an assortment
             of carcasses found throughout the feeding range. "Condors were found to have spent an average of fifteen hours a day at the roosting site, and even more hours on days of inclement weather" (Grossman. p38).
             These studies also produced the first scientific measure of the social structure of these birds. Their population had come under suspicion during this time, and the population count during this time seemed to prove their decline. The territories of these birds were found to be wide stretching, often including several hundred miles. The ability of
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