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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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. This rare birth helps preserve ...

BRONX, N.Y. (WFLA)— 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. The chick, which hatched on ...

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 ...

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 ...