From wikipedia: "It usually disdains the rotting meat, however, and lives on a diet that is 90% bone. It will drop large bones from a height to crack them to get smaller pieces. Its old name of Ossifrage (or Bone Crusher) relates to this habit. Live tortoises are also dropped in similar fashion to crack them open...According to legend, the Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when a tortoise was dropped on his bald head by a Lammergeier."
One bad-ass vulture!
From wikipedia: "It usually disdains the rotting meat, however, and lives on a diet that is 90% bone. It will drop large bones from a height to crack them to get smaller pieces. Its old name of Ossifrage (or Bone Crusher) relates to this habit. Live tortoises are also dropped in similar fashion to crack them open...According to legend, the Greek playwright Aeschylus was killed when a tortoise was dropped on his bald head by a Lammergeier."