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.

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 ...

The zoo uses puppets for feeding so that the vulture chick doesn't imprint on humans. An adult of the species also resides in an adjacent enclosure, so the little one has a good example of how to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ghost outfit and hand puppet have been used in the conservation of birds of prey for decades. In this case, it’s being used to raise a king vulture chick, born at the zoo on February 25.

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