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Two Condors Born At San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park
April 2, 2009SAN DIEGO -- Two endangered California condors have been born at the San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park over the past several days.
The zoo said Wednesday that seven more are expected to hatch in the next few months.
Zoo officials say two California condor chicks have hatched since Friday and a third was beginning to emerge Wednesday.
Officials say the Wild Animal Park has hatched 150 California condors since breeding of the critically endangered species began 27 years ago.
The California condor was near extinction in the 1980s, when the world population of the species hit a low of 22. There are now more than 300 of the giant vultures, more than half of which have been released into the wild.
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