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Zoo Using Realistic Puppet To Feed Newly-hatched King Vulture Chick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnjUirkeVwk
By Ben Hooper
April 29 (UPI) -- The Bronx Zoo in New York announced the first king vulture chick to hatch at the facility in three decades is being hand- raised using a puppet made to look like a mother vulture.
Officials said on social media that the hand pup- pet, designed by the Bronx Zoo's Exhibition and Graphic Arts Department, is designed to prevent the baby bird from imprinting
on its human caretakers.
"Bronx Zoo ornithologists pioneered this technique more than 40 years ago when hand-raising Andean condor chicks using a sim- ilar hand puppet cleverly designed to mimic an adult bird," the post said.
Officials explained that the carers using the puppet to feed and tend to the baby vulture will don costumes that hide "their face and other human features" dur- ing feeding.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown had two sons. One was named Mind Your Own Business & the other was named Trouble.
One day the two boys decided to play hide and seek. Trouble hid while Mind Your Own Business counted to one hundred. Mind Your Own Business began looking for his brother behind garbage cans and bushes.
Then he started looking in and under cars until a police man approached him and asked, "What are you doing?" "Playing a game," the boy replied.
"What is your name?" the officer questioned. "Mind Your Own Business." Furious the policeman inquired, "Are you looking for trou- ble?!"
The boy replied, "Why, yes."
A family is at the dinner table. The son asks the father, “Dad, how many kinds of boobs are there?”
The father, sur- prised, answers, “Well, son, a woman goes through three phases. In her 20s, a woman’s breasts are like melons, round and firm.
In her 30s and 40s, they are like pears, still nice, hanging a bit.
After 50, they are like onions.” “Onions?” the son asks. “Yes. You see them and they make you cry.”
This infuriated his wife and daugh- ter. The daughter asks, “Mom, how many different kinds of willies are there?”
The mother smiles and says, “Well, dear, a man goes through three phases also. In his 20s, his willy is like an oak tree, mighty and hard.
In his 30s and 40s, it’s like a birch, flexible but reliable.
After his 50s, it’s like a Christmas tree.” “A Christmas tree?” the daughter
asks. “Yes, dead from the root up and the balls are just for decora- tion.”
A teacher is teaching a class and she sees that Johnny isn't pay- ing attention, so she asks him, "If there are three ducks sitting on a fence, and you shoot one, how many are left?" Johnny says, "None."
The teacher asks, "Why?" Johnny says, "Because the shot scared them all off." The teacher says, "No, two, but I like how you're thinking." Johnny asks the teacher,
"If you see three women walking out of an ice cream parlor, one is licking her ice cream, one is sucking her ice cream, and one is biting her ice cream, which one is married?"
The teacher says, "The one sucking her ice cream." Johnny says,
"No, the one with the wedding ring, but I like how you're thinking!"
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