But would you be surprised to hear the mother is actually a hand-puppet? The chick hatched in February and has been living at the Bronx Zoo, in New York ever since. Some vultures don't make the ...

For the first time in three decades, a king vulture chick has hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York.The staff at the zoo are using a unique method to hand-raise the rare baby bird.In a social media ...

"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.

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 ...

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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. An adult of the ...