Archive · 8 Aug 2025
Prague Zoo Uses Puppets to Raise Baby Vultures
At a zoo in Prague, baby vultures are being fed by zookeepers using a special puppet.
The puppet looks like an adult vulture.
The parents of the baby vultures stopped taking care of them.
Because of this, the zookeepers are hand-feeding the babies.
They hope that by using the puppet, the baby vultures will learn to see themselves as vultures, and not as humans.
This helps them grow up properly and understand how to be a vulture.
Prague zookeepers are using puppets to feed baby vultures.
The zookeepers are hand-feeding the lesser yellow-headed vultures.
The parents stopped nesting, leading to hand-feeding.
The puppet resembles an adult vulture's head.
This method aims to help the birds identify with their own species.
- Who
- Zookeepers at Prague Zoo.
- What
- Zookeepers are using a puppet to feed baby vultures.
- When
- Unspecified, but ongoing.
- Where
- Prague Zoo.
- Why
- To ensure the baby vultures identify with their own species and not humans.
- Location
- Prague Zoo
- Animal
- Lesser yellow-headed vultures
- Activity
- Hand-feeding using a puppet
- Purpose
- To help the birds identify with their own species