The Bronx Zoo in New York is using a specially designed hand puppet to feed its new king vulture chick, which is intended to ...

A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by a hand puppet — a decades-old technique.

Employees at the Bronx Zoo are hand-raising a king vulture chick using a 40-year-old technique that helps prevent it from ...

A King Vulture chick at the Bronx Zoo is being fed by zoo workers wearing hand puppets. The zoo uses puppets for feeding so that the vulture chick doesn't imprint on humans.

King vultures can neglect their chicks, 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 ...