# Lauren Pharr: How vultures can help solve crimes

Can a bird that symbolizes death help the living catch criminals? In this informative and accessible talk, forensic anthropologist Lauren Pharr shows us how vultures impact crime scenes — and the assistance they can provide to detectives investigating murders. (This talk contains graphic images.)

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Crime, Education, Science, Nature
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/LaurenPharr_2017X)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/LaurenPharr_2017X?play=1)