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

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 chick is being hand-raised using a hand puppet that helps prevent young birds from imprinting on humans, and ensures it grows into a healthy adult," the Bronx Zoo shared in its release.

BRONX, N.Y. (WFLA)— Employees at the Bronx Zoo are hand-raising a king vulture chick using a 40-year-old technique that helps prevent it from imprinting on humans. The chick, which hatched on ...

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But to make sure it doesn’t imprint on humans, staff train the bird’s instincts onto a hand puppet that’s crafted to look like a real vulture. Trump administration signs minerals deal with ...

A baby vulture at the Bronx Zoo in New York is being raised with a rather unusual parenting technique: feeding with a hand puppet designed to resemble an adult vulture. King vultures are known to ...

Hand-puppet rearing has also been used to help bring back the critically endangered California condor. The new king vulture chick, which is yet to be named, is the first of its kind to be hatched ...