{
  "id": 9842800,
  "title": "Critically endangered species in the heart of Africa: Investigating Hooded Vultures in Chad",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/critically-endangered-species-in-the-heart-of-africa-investigating",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-25T21:20:02.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-09-critically-endangered-species-heart-africa.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Slaughterhouses are places most people never want to go, and might seem like unlikely places to search for rare or endangered species. In West Africa, however, they are among the last places one can find a critically endangered species, the Hooded Vulture, which historically thrived as a human commensal species, living in close proximity to people and contributing to waste disposal.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}