If you look very closely you'll notice that this king vulture chick isn't being fed by it's parents, but by a hand-puppet used by staff at the Bronx Zoo.

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 ...

The Bronx Zoo is hand-raising a king vulture chick with a hand puppet so the bird doesn't imprint on humans.

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.

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.

A king vulture feeds with the help of vulture puppet, March 2025, at the Bronx Zoo in the Bronx borough of New York. (Terria Clay/Wildlife Conservation Society via AP) ...

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.

A King Vulture chick at the Bronx Zoo is being fed by zoo workers wearing hand puppets. The zoo uses puppets for feeding so that the vulture chick doesn't imprint on humans.

King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the baby survives, the Bronx Zoo said in a statement Tuesday. But to make sure it doesn’t imprint on humans, staff ...

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...