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.

The staff at the zoo are using a unique method to hand-raise the rare baby bird. In a social media post, the Bronx Zoo announced that a hand puppet is helping zoo staff take care of the bird.

(Another adult king vulture is housed next to the baby, “for socialization,” says ... A zookeeper does the feeding with a hand puppet that looks like an adult bird. (The same technique has ...

NEW YORK – A baby vulture at a New York zoo ... 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 ...

King vultures can neglect their chicks, so hand-feeding is necessary to ensure the baby survives ... a feeding session shows someone with their arm clad in black and a puppet that looks like ...

A baby vulture at the Bronx ... feeds with the help of a hand puppet (Terria Clay/Wildlife Conservation Society via AP) Footage of a feeding session shows someone with their arm clad in black ...

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