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An Andean condor represented in one of the Nazca geoglyphs Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 ...

A king vulture chick is being hand-raised by a puppet at a New York City zoo. On February 25, the Bronx Zoo welcomed its first king vulture chick since the 1990s, according to a press release from ...

The Bronx Zoo in New York is using a specially designed hand puppet to feed its new king vulture chick, which is intended to prevent the baby bird from becoming too dependent on humans.

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers.

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"Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered this technique more than 40 years ago when hand-raising Andean condor chicks using a similar hand puppet cleverly designed to mimic an adult bird," the post said.