Brant Bollman founded Uplifting Puppet Co. two years ago to build community and spark imagination through puppetry. Since ...

“Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered this technique more than 40 years ago when hand-raising Andean condor chicks using a similar hand puppet cleverly designed to mimic an adult bird,” the zoo ...

The bird is being raised with the help of keepers using hand puppets that look like an adult king vulture Not only that, but she is also using a hand puppet that looks exactly like an adult bird ...

The puppet mimics the head of an adult King Vulture, which sits on top of the person’s hand in a black sleeve, which looks surprisingly similar to the black neck of the adult bird. WCS ...

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.

Officials said on social media that the hand puppet, designed by the Bronx Zoo's Exhibition and Graphic Arts Department, is designed to prevent the baby bird from imprinting on its human caretakers.

NEW YORK (AP) — 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 ...