California IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Condor Hatches at Animal Park
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A California condor hatched at San Diego Wild Animal Park, becoming the third chick produced this year in a program to save the endangered species from extinction, a park spokesman said. The condor, named Otum, a Yuki Indian word meaning spirit, emerged unassisted from the egg, spokesman Tom Hanscom said. The hatching raised to 43 the population of California condors, North America’s largest land birds.
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