by Staff writer
A Dutch zoo says 2 manlike mortal vultures inwards a long-standing human relationship conduct hold larn parents later successfully hatching an egg.
Staff gave the gay griffon vultures an abandoned egg, which they cared for inwards their nest for 2 months.
Zoo keeper Job van Tol said the 2 fathers are "a really tight couple" together with are doing the project perfectly.
"We conduct hold had them for but about years. They e'er construct a nest together, bond together with mate together," he told the BBC.
"But, equally 2 males, the 1 affair they could non produce was set an egg."
So when staff discovered a exclusively egg that none of the other vultures would adopt, they get-go cared for it inwards an incubator, together with thence decided to house inwards the manlike mortal couple's nest.
"It was a fighting of endangerment equally nosotros had no guarantees of success, but nosotros thought, finally, this is their chance," said Mr Van Tol.
Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo said the novel parents are really protective of their fast-growing chick, which is straight off twenty days old, together with they conduct hold been breaking upwardly its nutrient to larn inwards manageable to eat.
"As inwards but about penguin species, vultures produce everything the same, they alternate all the jobs. Females set the eggs, but they breed together, they provender for nutrient together. Males are programmed to conduct hold that duty of care," said Mr Van Tol.
This is the zoo's get-go successful hatching inwards 5 years.
Another chick was likewise hatched during the same period, yesteryear 2 heterosexual parents who were rescued from a route accident inwards Spain.
"We are lucky to conduct hold 2 really exceptional stories this year," said Mr Van Tol.
The zoo is hoping to unloosen the 2 novel birds into the wild when they are older together with independent.
In Apr 2016, at that topographic point was tidings of but about other pair of gay vultures caring for an abandoned egg at Nordhorn Zoo inwards northern Germany.
Unfortunately, that egg never hatched.
"They sat on it inwards the nest, but it was non fertile," Dr Heike Weber, veterinary together with zoo curator, told the BBC.
"We did non intend it was, but nosotros did non desire to accept it away from them to test it."
When the zoo keepers in conclusion intervened, the birds became aggressive. "They were attached to it, absolutely," said Dr Weber. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/
A Dutch zoo says 2 manlike mortal vultures inwards a long-standing human relationship conduct hold larn parents later successfully hatching an egg.
Staff gave the gay griffon vultures an abandoned egg, which they cared for inwards their nest for 2 months.
Zoo keeper Job van Tol said the 2 fathers are "a really tight couple" together with are doing the project perfectly.
"We conduct hold had them for but about years. They e'er construct a nest together, bond together with mate together," he told the BBC.
"But, equally 2 males, the 1 affair they could non produce was set an egg."
So when staff discovered a exclusively egg that none of the other vultures would adopt, they get-go cared for it inwards an incubator, together with thence decided to house inwards the manlike mortal couple's nest.
"It was a fighting of endangerment equally nosotros had no guarantees of success, but nosotros thought, finally, this is their chance," said Mr Van Tol.
Artis Amsterdam Royal Zoo said the novel parents are really protective of their fast-growing chick, which is straight off twenty days old, together with they conduct hold been breaking upwardly its nutrient to larn inwards manageable to eat.
"As inwards but about penguin species, vultures produce everything the same, they alternate all the jobs. Females set the eggs, but they breed together, they provender for nutrient together. Males are programmed to conduct hold that duty of care," said Mr Van Tol.
This is the zoo's get-go successful hatching inwards 5 years.
Another chick was likewise hatched during the same period, yesteryear 2 heterosexual parents who were rescued from a route accident inwards Spain.
"We are lucky to conduct hold 2 really exceptional stories this year," said Mr Van Tol.
The zoo is hoping to unloosen the 2 novel birds into the wild when they are older together with independent.
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| A griffon vulture together with chick [AFP/Getty Images] |
In Apr 2016, at that topographic point was tidings of but about other pair of gay vultures caring for an abandoned egg at Nordhorn Zoo inwards northern Germany.
Unfortunately, that egg never hatched.
"They sat on it inwards the nest, but it was non fertile," Dr Heike Weber, veterinary together with zoo curator, told the BBC.
"We did non intend it was, but nosotros did non desire to accept it away from them to test it."
When the zoo keepers in conclusion intervened, the birds became aggressive. "They were attached to it, absolutely," said Dr Weber. Sumber http://www.dnbstories.com/