Welcome to the world Little Egbert! 🐣 Zookeepers at London Zoo have been celebrating the arrival of the first vulture chick to hatch at the site in more than 40 years. 📲 Read more about how zookeepers saved Egbert:
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Egbert, a critically endangered fluffy grey Ruppell's griffon vulture chick, weighed the same as a bar of soap when hatched. Ruppell's griffon vultures are the world's highest-flying birds, documented to have reached heights of 10,973m above sea level, and were one of the first animals at London Zoo when it opened almost 200 years ago.A wooden dummy egg was left in Philomena's nest while Egbert was waiting to hatch in an incubator
"We've been feeding the little one a meaty protein shake of raw quail, mouse and rat meat which will help the chick put on a hefty seven kilograms over its first three months.
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