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The condors gave it away.
Instead of soaring in circles on thermals high overhead, a group of Andean condors was traveling low to the ground. Some even landed tentatively before lumbering back up into the air only to touch down again near the same spot near one of the dirt roads that run through the park. These endangered scavengers were clearly feeding and I wanted to see what they’d found to feast on.
As I drove slowly closer, the enormous birds moved a short distance away and after a few careful steps through tufts of grass along the side of the road I saw what they were after: a partly eaten young guanaco, its neck snapped in a signature puma move. Standing there alone with the fresh kill under the watchful, wary eyes of the condors felt like I was in my own personal episode of “Wild Kingdom” with Marlin Perkins.
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Happy Wednesday, Illinois. Crowds may be returning to Wrigley Field, but for vaccines. It’s a start, folks.
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For the first time in 23 years, the Illinois Democratic Party will have a new chair and it’s going to be a Black woman. Tonight’s vote by the Democratic Illinois Central Committee symbolizes a new chapter in state politics after the long tenure of party leader
Michael Madigan. The contest is between Chicago Ald.
Michelle Harris and Congresswoman Robin Kelly, both well-respected Black elected officials.
St. Louis Zoo plans habitat for endangered wolf
Red wolves to live at Sears Lehmann wildlife reserve By JIM SALTER, Associated Press
Published: February 5, 2021, 6:00am
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O’FALLON, Mo. The St. Louis Zoo plans to use land it owns in a rural area of Missouri as habitat for a wolf breed on the verge of extinction, zoo officials said Monday.
Only about 20 American red wolves remain in the wild due mostly to illegal hunting, vehicle strikes and habitat loss. Plans call for wolves to live and breed on the Sears Lehmann Jr. Wildlife Reserve, a protected setting that was donated to the zoo in 1993. The reserve is in Franklin County, Mo., about 40 miles southwest of St. Louis.