staff train the bird's instincts onto a hand puppet that's crafted to look like a real vulture. The decades-old technique is used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human ...

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 ...

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 ...