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What do you think happens when you leave your dinner unattended in a safari park?

Date
16 May 2013

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Have you ever hosted a raucous dinner party where the room is left demolished after a chaotic night of eating and drinking? Take that situation, swap the guests for wild vultures and your dining room for a national park and this video captures that scene pretty perfectly. In perhaps one of the best videos we’ve all seen for a long time, artist Greta Alfaro has placed what looks like a Thanksgiving dinner complete with cutlery, plates, tablecloth – you name it – in the middle of a safari park and set up a camera to record the action. The suspense is pretty intense, you know what’s coming, but when it does, it is surprisingly savage.

A table draped in a pale pink cloth is set with food and wine in a wide, open field. Behind it, rows of bare trees lead toward a rugged, rocky hill under a pale sky.
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Greta Alfaro: In Ictu Oculi

A large flock of vultures gathers around a table covered with a pink cloth. Some birds perch on the table while others crowd around it in a dry, hilly landscape.
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Greta Alfaro: In Ictu Oculi

A table laden with food and wine sits in a barren landscape, surrounded by several turkeys. In the background, rows of leafless trees lead toward a rocky hill under a pale sky.
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Greta Alfaro: In Ictu Oculi

A table covered in a pale pink cloth sits in a barren, hilly landscape. Several chairs are scattered around it, with a row of leafless trees and rocky mountains in the background.
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Greta Alfaro: In Ictu Oculi

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Liv Siddall

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Liv joined It’s Nice That as an intern in 2011 and worked across online, print and events, and was latterly Features Editor before leaving in May 2015.

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