The events took place on Thursday October 24 in Sévérac-le-Château.
Be careful, these images can be very shocking. The Departmental Federation of Farmers' Unions of Aveyron (FDSEA 12) published this Tuesday, October 29 on its Facebook page the video of the attack of a flock of vultures on a cow and her calf which occurred on Thursday October 24 in a field in the town of Sévérac-d'Aveyron.
At first, it begins as a simple walk on a path in the countryside, a walk punctuated, however, by shrill cries, worthy of those that can be heard in the heart of a jungle. Cries of birds of prey. For a moment, we can see through the brush the head of a ruminant with moving gray shadows around it.
More than thirty vultures began to devour the cow alive
When the person filming (probably the breeder himself) arrives in the field, a flock of vultures, around thirty or more, flee when the man arrives. Then the camera moves to the left and reveals a horrible vision: the corpse of a calf completely torn to pieces, and next to it a cow lying on the grass, its rump bloody, which the birds of prey had apparently begun to destroy. devour alive.
According to comments from the “No to the Wolf” collective which posted this video on October 27, and referring to the information provided by the EPM (European Predation Map), two veterinarians noted that “vultures entered the cow thirty centimeters and destroyed the urinary tract“. By now, this cow may have been euthanized.
The FDSEA of Aveyron as well as the Young Farmers recall the previous attacks of vultures in the department, in May 2024 on cows and calves in Ségur as well as on sheep in Curan and Sévérac-d'Aveyron, and on October 1 last on an octogenarian in Verrières.
Once again, the agricultural unions are calling on the Bird Protection League (LPO) and the French Biodiversity Office (OFB) to “change their speech quickly and stop hiding the true face of the vulture“.
