On February 25, 2025, a king vulture chick hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Zookeepers are hand-raising the chick using a puppet to prevent human imprinting.

A chick at the Bronx Zoo is fed using a hand puppet resembling a vulture to prevent it from imprinting on humans. This technique, developed to ensure chick survival from neglectful parents, has ...

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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 ...

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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. King ...

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) A king vulture feeds with ...