Condor Program Gets Chick to Hatch in Wild
From Times Staff Reports
A California condor chick hatched in the wild Friday, the first since a captive breeding program to save the species began 15 years ago.
The chick’s natural parents are captive condors at the Los Angeles Zoo, but scientists hope two of the condors nesting in Los Padres National Forest will learn how to raise the chick as their own. Scientists took the egg from the zoo and put it in the nest, where earlier they had planted an artificial egg.
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