PRAGUE, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Zookeepers feeding two baby vultures in Prague are using a hand puppet designed to look like the chicks' parents, a technique they hope will ensure the birds learn to ...

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 ...

Michael Reilly was backstage at the Pantages Theatre, brushing tiny strokes of blue paint around the bulging eyes of Zazu — a dodo bird hand puppet featured in Disney’s “The Lion King.” The ...

IDK, Melanie, I don’t know the answer to either of those questions, but the Polly/cracker thing really annoys me. Here at work we sell bird hand puppets. Anytime a child stumbles upon a parrot puppet, ...