Keepers attempt to hand rear baby condor using puppet

A baby condor, the world's largest flying bird, has an been given an unusual companion - a stuffed hand puppet.

Keepers had planned to use it to feed the bird, but so far it doesn't seem to be interested.

The chick is around the size of a large chicken, but soon it will grown to have a wingspan up to ten feet across.

The chick is being reared at the International Birds of Prey Centre in Newent.

Although she is having to be hand reared, her keepers are trying to isolate her from humans, so it doesn't become too imprinted on people.

So they're getting her used to a stuffed condor's head that they can feed it with - the trouble is, at the moment it just hisses at it.

Other condors at the centre which were hand reared are incredibly tame.

It is hoped that by isolating this latest youngster - but keeping it in an enclosure next to the other condors which it can see, it will grow up thinking it is a condor and not a person.

These birds can live for 70 years so there's plenty of time for learning.

And for stretching those magnificent wings.