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.

(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 ...