ATLANTA, Ga. — A zoo in Atlanta is celebrating the birth of an endangered vulture. After eight years of attempting to breed at Zoo Atlanta, two lappet-faced vultures named Anubis and Amana ...
It's a world of excitement at Zoo Atlanta as tiny faces light up at lions, elephants, and rhinos, but there's a feathered resident at the zoo that deserves a second look. Obsidian is the newest star ...
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 handlers.
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 ...
King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the baby survives, the Bronx Zoo said in a statement Tuesday. But to make sure it doesn't imprint on humans, staff train ...