Fun fact about these towers and the vultures. Historically speaking India had relatively few carcasses despite cattle wandering everywhere and much of the population not eating beef due to the three endemic species of vultures (Indian, Slender-Billed, and White Rump) having tens of millions of them flying about. Every time some cattle died or corpse washed to the shores, it would be picked clean by the millions of circling vultures in a manner of seconds which is one of the reasons why the country used to be cleaner. Starting in the 90s, Indians began feeding their cattle an anti-inflammatory called Diclofenac (sold in the US under the name Voltaren, used to treat arthritis) as a prophylactic and treatment against various diseases. Vultures can't process this however, so consuming the flesh of these cattle would cause them to rapidly die of kidney failure. From the early 90s until the early 2000s when the drug was banned, over 99% of the vultures in Indian died of kidney failure from consuming these cattle and now they number less than 20,000 between all three species.
Despite the introduction of the drug and it subsequently being banned by the Indian government, their farmers still give the drug to their cattle. All vulture species are now considered critically endangered in India and it's considered one of the largest ecological disasters in human history.
For a basic oversight, wikipedia is decent enough.
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