A baby vulture at the Bronx 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 handlers. King ...

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 ...

A few decades ago, William G. Conway — the late ornithologist who’s largely responsible for reimagining the Bronx Zoo as the conservation-minded institution we know today — had his upper lip bitten ...

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 human ...

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 species ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — A baby vulture at a New York ...