New York (AP) – A vulture baby in a New York zoo is not fed by another bird but …
NEW YORK (AP) – A vulture baby in a New York zoo is not fed by another bird but with hand puppets – a technique old decades used to ensure that the chick does not identify too closely with its human managers.
King vultures Can neglect their chicks, so hand -feeding is necessary to ensure that the baby survives, the Bronx zoo said on Tuesday in a press release. But to ensure that he does not print himself on humans, the staff leads to the instinct of the bird on a hand puppet which is designed to look like a real vulture.
“At this stage of development, our animal care staff feeds the chick with the puppet made at the Bronx zoo once a day and we work to ensure that it is not printed on humans,” said the conservative of the Bronx of the Bronx of Ornithology Chuck Cerbini in a press release.
Images of a food session show someone with their arm dressed in black and a puppet that looks like the face and the beak of a vulture on their hand, which is used to grab pieces of food and deliver them to the mouth of the chick.
A vulture of the adult king is placed in an adjacent enclosure which “allows the chick to have exposure to the appropriate behavior of the king's vulture,” said Cerbini.
The zoo says it helped develop the food technique more than four decades when workers used it to raise three Andean Condor chicks, who were then released in the wild in Peru. Hand pocket education has also been used to help reduce critical danger California Condor.
The new Poussin King Vulture, which has not yet been appointed, is the first of its kind to be hatched at the Bronx zoo since the 1990s. The zoo said that he wanted to make sure that the genetics of the 55 -year -old father of the Poussin is practiced, because he has only one other descendants living.
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