As cardinals at the Vatican elected a new pope, only a few steps away, the Rome zoo celebrated the birth of a Pope Vulture, also known as the King Vulture or Sarcoramphus Papa in Latin. The 'pope' vulture chick's egg hatched on May 8, 2025, the day the white smoke announcing the new pontiff rose from the chimney of the Sistine chapel. The vulture chick is in the nursery of the Rome Zoo, where it is cared for and fed by the zoo workers. The vulture chick is fed with a glove that resembles the shape of its mother's head, and workers are obliged to cover their faces to avoid imprinting.
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00:29Papa and the Italian name is Aboltorio Papa and it was he was born actually hatched in the same day that the new Pope was elected so such a coincidence nice coincidence good to know he's from South America as well so very nice to know that
00:59So the incubation time lasted about 55 days and then we saw the first peep in the egg okay and then we started following it up very very closely deciding that usually when the first peep appear
01:29We are sure that the little one is ready to hatch we actually helped him a little bit more and he was out weighing 127 grams when he was born
01:39Was born
01:49This is what?
01:51Yes
01:52This is what?
01:54Especially with vultures, the imprinting could be a problem, and then since we do want this
02:12little one to grow up and become a normal bird and be able to breed in the future with
02:17his own species, we are applying a very strict protocol to block any possibility of imprinting.
02:30It means that no contact with human beings, and when we prepare the puppet, it's like the
02:36mother was feeding him, trying to put around some photos of different bears of his own species.
02:47Since he was born on the same day that the Pope was elected, and since the name is Avaltorio
03:08Papa in Italiano, and the Latin name is as well Sacro Rampus Papa, it was, everybody was saying,
03:15ah, so let's go, let's call him Leo.
03:18So of course we are going to find out sooner or later if he's going to be a male or a female,
03:21we have to sex him when he grow up a little bit, and then we'll decide about the name as
