An increasing trend in caring for animals in zoos in aquariums is implementing new technologies and techniques into our care routines. It amazes me at how much more high-tech this field is even compared to when I started as a young keeper.
Sometimes, however, the old techniques work just as well. Decades ago, at the height of the recovery program, zookeepers used hand puppets to raise endangered California condor chicks without imprinting them. And now, keepers at the Bronx Zoo, having a young king vulture chick to raise, are using those same techniques - with one heck of a fancy looking puppet.
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