We just love this guy's hairdo. He's an Egyptian vulture, also known as "the Pharaoh's chicken" after Egypt's long-ago kings. Aside from his crazy feather bedhead, he also has a very pointy-looking beak, and he's very smart with how he uses it. Egyptian vultures are one of the few birds that hold objects and use them as "tools." Vultures usually eat animals that are already dead - yuck! But they also eat other things, like the eggs of other birds. The vulture holds a pebble in its mouth and pounds it like a hammer on the egg to open it and eat it. Also, vultures use their beaks to roll up wool on twigs when building their nests. Now, if we could just teach him how to use a hairbrush...