While vultures are usually depicted as creepy, Lake Superior Zoo zookeeper Kelli Carroll has a serious soft spot for Morticia the turkey vulture. “She is my favorite animal in the entire zoo,” Kelli ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Dickerson Park Zoo showcased its turkey vulture on October’s The Wild Side. Zookeeper KyAnne Hilger shares the differences between a turkey vulture and a black vulture. To ...

On April 29th, the Bronx Zoo made a huge announcement in the animal world. The first king vulture chick in three decades hatched at the zoo on February 25th and is healthy and growing quickly! In a ...

A king vulture chick is being hand-raised by a puppet at a New York City zoo. On February 25, the Bronx Zoo welcomed its first king vulture chick since the 1990s, according to a press release from the ...

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. King ...

Visitors to the Cameron Park Zoo in Waco recently may have noticed a number of extra animals that aren't meant to be there, black vultures. The zoo said the birds are wild and not meant to be part of ...

A king vulture (Sarcoramphus papa) at the Johannesburg Zoo in South Africa during the public viewing event held to raise awareness about the threats faced by bird species in the country due to climate ...

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 handlers.

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 ...