African Giant Condor

The African Giant Condor is the largest flying bird species on earth, about the same size as the long-extinct argentavis, having a wingspan up to about 25 feet. It is a scavenger (feeding only on large dead animals including carcasses of elephants, rhinos, hippos, antelopes, buffaloes, etc.) and is not a predator, so there has never been a record of an African giant condor attacking and killing people, so they are safe to be around. They are found in the mountains, grasslands, savannahs, and scrublands of Africa, but can survive in all kinds of human settlements, but were also introduced to North America by people, so they now also live in North American mountains, grasslands, savannahs, scrublands, and human settlements. Because of their huge size, they are immune to all kinds of lead poison (unlike any other vultures and condors) that humans use when human hunters shoot animals. Their ancestors might have been a prehistoric relative of Andean condors of 25 million years ago that flew from South America to Africa when Africa and South America was closer to each other than today, allowing the condors to fly into Africa safely. They resemble a hybrid between two of their relatives, an Andean condor and a California condor, but are much bigger.