April 29 (UPI) --The Bronx Zoo in New York announced the first king vulture chick to hatch at the facility in three decades is being hand-raised using a puppet made to look like a mother vulture.

A puppet is a small, controllable figure of a person or animal. The original puppets were cloth bodies that fit over human hands like gloves. The puppeteer controls the figure’s movements from inside.

In the four-plus years that Australian theater and puppetry group Erth Visual & Physical has been touring with the interactive Dinosaur Petting Zoo show, artistic director Scott Wright has encountered ...