WICHITA, Kan. (KSNW) — On Wednesday at noon, KSN viewers met Hoppy, the king vulture at Tanganyika Wildlife Park. Kiana Lucero brought Hoppy to the station. King vultures have colorful but bald heads.
A few decades ago, William G. Conway — the late ornithologist who’s largely responsible for reimagining the Bronx Zoo as the conservation-minded institution we know today — had his upper lip bitten ...
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 ...