A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique.

The new king vulture chick, which is yet to be named, is the first of its kind to be hatched at the Bronx Zoo since the 1990s.

the Bronx Zoo can be a great way to escape the nonstop activity in Manhattan and see a different borough. This zoo's claim to fame is that it's one of the largest metropolitan animal parks in the ...

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

staff train the bird's instincts onto a hand puppet that's crafted to look like a real vulture. “At this stage of development, our animal care staff are feeding the chick with the Bronx Zoo-made ...