The first California condor chick to be hatched in captivity prepares to take food from an adult condor puppet at the San Diego Zoo. The puppet was developed by zoo officials to avoid having the chick become attached to humans. The egg had been kept in an incubator at the zoo after being taken from a nest in the wilds north of Los Angeles a month before the chick was hatched. Hatching the egg at the zoo was part of a captive breeding programme aimed at increasing the diminishing numbers of condors in California. About 20 condors remain in the wild and are dying at the rate of about three a year. A second egg was hatched at the zoo within a week of the first. Press, 12 September 1983, Page 29
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