| Biologists, zoo officials, and condors are all learning by trial and error. |
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| One of the recovery program's goals is to have 200 condors soaring in the wild. |
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| Beginning with the first reintroductions in 1992, 13 condors have been reintroduced into the wild in Santa Barbara County. |
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| In Colombia, biologists are busy reintroducing young condors hatched in North American zoos to parks and reserves. |
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| One of the condors perched in a pine atop Cable Mountain and just sat there for the better part of a half hour. |
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| One place the condors still soar is Peru's Colca Canyon, a gorge twice as deep as Arizona's Grand Canyon. |
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| A backdrop of mountains and glaciers, and condors soaring high overhead, make this the perfect antidote to the bustle of every day life. |
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| On some occasions, when there is food, I have succeeded in observing 24 condors together. |
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| We in San Diego go through Herculean efforts to shield our condors from human contact. |
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| The jury is still out on whether condors will repopulate California skies. |
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| You need to do the surrogate stuff that they do with condors, for example. |
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| The condors will succeed to the extent their new culture allows. |
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| Giant condors scavenged on the remains of prey killed by predators such as the American lion and sabre-toothed cats. |
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| Then we went to see the condors, coatis, forest buffaloes, giraffes, okapis, red river hogs and on to the chimpanzees. |
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| Some animals that are part of SSP programs are giant pandas, lowland gorillas, and California condors. |
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| But the high point was probably the first day of the trip, when we were on a mountainside opposite the roost of half a dozen Andean condors. |
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| The Incas believed that Andean condors flew the sun into the sky every morning and served as messengers to the gods. |
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| It breeds black vultures, griffon vultures, condors, and preserves endangered species. |
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| The return of California condors to the wild is a remarkable conservation success story. |
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| By the late 1980s the last 27 California condors in existence were living at either the San Diego Zoo or the Los Angeles Zoo. |
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| Cameras reveal the secret lives of pumas and hummingbirds, soar with condors over glacial peaks and explore monkey puzzle forests. |
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| By 1985, there were nine free-roaming condors left on earth and a few more in zoos. |
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| Most also eat carrion, at least occasionally, and vultures and condors eat carrion as their main food source. |
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| The world population of free-flying California condors dropped to 22 birds by 1982, and biologists stepped in with an ambitious plan to save them. |
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| Giant California condors are an endangered species and the federal government has been working for years to establish breeding populations in the wild. |
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| Five condors had been free-flying initially and were then brought into captivity for medical treatment for various reasons including lead exposure, microtrash, or injury. |
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| Working with Sergio Lambertucci from the National University of Comahue, she will be fitting Andean condors with custom-made data loggers in order to map their flight paths. |
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| A pair of Andean condors, Gus and Sonya, hold residency at the Colwyn Bay attraction, and are part of a carefully controlled European Breeding Programme. |
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| The California Condor Recovery Program is moving forward after the release of 116 California condors to southern and central California and northern Arizona. |
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| Among the most notable animals in the archipelago are austral parakeets, sea gulls, guanacos, foxes, kingfishers, condors, king penguins, owls, and firecrown hummingbirds. |
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| Condors hunt prey mostly by sight, soaring on thermal updrafts and wind currents until they spot a potential meal. |
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| Condors typically lay only one egg per season, with the male assisting in incubation. |
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| The first webcam to monitor California Condors in the wild recently was installed in a remote area of Big Sur, Calif. |
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| Then back at the zoo we marvelled at the giant Andean Condors, the world's largest flying birds and the strangely beautiful King Vultures. |
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