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.

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 ...

Zookeepers at Prague Zoo use hand puppets resembling adult vultures to feed baby vultures, preventing human imprinting. This ...

Michael Reilly was backstage at the Pantages Theatre, brushing tiny strokes of blue paint around the bulging eyes of Zazu — a dodo bird hand puppet featured in Disney’s “The Lion King ...

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 ...

PRAGUE (Reuters) -Zookeepers feeding two baby vultures in Prague are using a hand puppet designed to look like the chicks' ...

Zookeepers feeding two baby vultures in Prague are using a hand puppet designed to resemble the chicks' parents, a technique they hope will help the birds learn to identify with other vultures rather ...

Not such a bird-brained idea: Owl puppet used to feed orphan tawny chicks rescued from the wild By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Updated: 10:41 EDT, 29 April 2010 ...

But to make sure it doesn’t imprint on humans, staff train the bird’s instincts onto a hand puppet that’s crafted to look like a real vulture. Associated Press • Apr 29, 2025, 6:40 PM ...