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 baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human handlers. King ...

So, how does it work? The zoo says that a zookeeper puts on a costume, hiding their face and other human features. The zookeeper then uses the hand puppet to feed the baby bird, which is inside a ...

The Bronx Zoo in New York announced the first king vulture chick to hatch at the facility in three decades is being hand-raised using a puppet made to look like a mother vulture.

WCS photographer, Terria Clay "A keeper disguises themselves with a costume, hiding their face and other human features," the release explained, "and uses the hand puppet to feed the bird inside a ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a 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 ...

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 ...