Zoo Welcomes Baby Vulture

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The Nashville Zoo is proud to welcome a baby vulture. When it comes to cute animals, a vulture may not come to mind. But the king vulture chick hatched on May 7th at the Nashville Zoo might be the exception. “We have our king vulture here, only eleven days old,” explained Lauren Covington, Nashville Zoo Avian Keeper. “We pulled this little chick, we don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl yet, but he or she was pulled at four days from his parents or her parents. And we should know if it’s a boy or a girl any day now.” King vultures are native to South America, and as a vulture, he’s fed what you might expect vultures to eat. “This guy is really strong already,” Covington pointed out. “So, a king vulture’s beak is one of the strongest beaks of all the vultures. So, although they don’t have one of the best sense of smell of all the vultures, they are one of the strongest.” I plan to visit this baby soon. The zoo has been sold out the last few weekends. That is a good thing. Families are starting to go out and enjoy life again. Photo courtesy of the local news station.