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 ...

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 the bird’s instincts onto a hand ...

So, how does it work? The zoo says that a zookeeper puts on a costume, hiding their face and other human features. The zookeeper then uses the hand puppet to feed the baby bird, which is inside a ...

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 the bird's instincts onto a hand ...

The zookeeper then uses the hand puppet to feed the baby bird, which is inside a brooder that is serving as a nest for the chick.CNN reports that the bird’s gender has yet to be determined.

The baby bird is the first king vulture chick hatched ... using a similar mechanism to hand-feed Andean condor chicks in 1981. "This technique used in hand-raising the vulture chick incorporates ...

A baby vulture at the Bronx Zoo in New York is being raised with a rather unusual parenting technique: feeding with ... staff train the bird's instincts onto a hand puppet that's crafted to ...