14 DAY TRIAL // A couple of days ago, the San Diego zoo went public with the news that this year's first Californian condor chick had hatched at the animal sanctuary back on February 24.
Presently, the bird finds itself in good health, Live Science reports. Thus, its caretakers say that it feasts on roughly 15 mice per day, which is why they are confident that it will soon grow sufficiently big and strong to be released in the wild.
In order to keep the condor chick from getting too accustomed to being handled by people, its caretakers have developed a so-called puppet glove which they use whenever interacting with it.
“The puppet is like a fancy glove. It covers our hands so the chick does not get any beneficial experiences from people.”
“We do not want it imprinting on people or getting used to us when it goes out into the wild. We want it to be a nice, wild animal, not relying on people for food,” keeper Ron Webb said.