In Dallas, a Stork Is Born
<i> Associated Press</i>
DALLAS —
At the Dallas Zoo, people delivered the stork.
Zookeepers helped hatch the first saddled-billed stork born in captivity. The chick, which was born Thursday, weighed about 3.5 ounces.
It had been impossible to breed saddle-billed storks in zoos because the clipped wings that kept them in open aviaries also prevented successful mating, officials said. Nets put on the aviaries now keep the birds in and allow breeding.
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