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"The two lappet-faced vultures had been together for just a few months, yet the massive birds, with their watchful, featherless gargoyle faces and their dark mottled body plumage so plush it looks like fur, had already mastered the avian version of monkey-see-monkey-do."
The birds are widely reviled for their carrion-eating ways. But an evolutionary history of scavenging has forged a creative, cunning and wide-ranging mind.
BALTIMORE — The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore July 27 announced that a Northern ground hornbill chick has hatched. The chick is the first for the female, Blue, and male, North.