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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’s baby king vulture gets fed with a hand puppet that looks like an adult bird. Hatched on February 25, this tiny as-yet-unnamed creature in the fluffy white feather shrug looks ...

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 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 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) ...

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 ...

A New York zoo is hand-feeding a baby vulture with a realistic bird puppet to ensure it survives to maturity.