King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the baby survives, the Bronx Zoo said in a ...

Why this US zoo is feeding a baby vulture with a hand puppet - The decades-old technique is used to ensure the chick doesn’t ...

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 ...

A king vulture chick is being nursed by employees of the Bronx Zoo, though it will hopefully never know it. The chick, at ...

Turkey vultures have a major PR problem. Many people view them as black-feathered villains with menacing bone-colored beaks that skulk on tree branches and circle the skies waiting for animals and ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Footage of a feeding session shows someone with their arm clad in black and a puppet that looks like a vulture’s face and beak on their hand, which is used to grab morsels of food and deliver ...