Animals that start with V

V is carried here by one of the most undervalued animals alive. Vultures have stomach acid strong enough to digest carcasses carrying anthrax, botulism and cholera, and by clearing carrion before it rots they prevent disease on a scale no other animal matches. When vultures collapsed across India in the 1990s, feral dog numbers and rabies cases rose sharply behind them.

6 animals in the library start with V, from the vampire bat to the vulture. Most of them live in South America and North America.