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 ...

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 February ...

A baby vulture at the Bronx 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 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 bitten ...

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 ...

A King Vulture chick at the Bronx Zoo is being fed by zoo workers wearing hand puppets. The zoo uses puppets for feeding so that the vulture chick doesn't imprint on humans. An adult of the species ...

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, staff train ...