The California Condor has been on the brink of extinction with only a few condors left, but now with the help of zoologists, there are over 150 California Condor in the captivity and in the wild. The California Condor is a very prehistoric animal that lived since the Pleistocene period. During the Pleistocene period California Condor roamed most of the southern United States, but now there are only limited to Central California. Zoologists have discovered an amazing way to increase the California Condor population.
The scientific name for the California Condor is Gymnogyps Californianus. They are the largest bird in North America. They have orange and a yellowish-gray head. It has little hair on its head (near nose).
It has a small sharp hooked beak and red eyes. It height is 45-55 inches and weigh about 20-25 pounds. It is around 4 feet from its head to its tail. Its wing span is 8 ½. The young under 4 years old is black with white feathers. The older ones have black and white triangular patches of feathers. They have scaly skin on flat long legs.
California’s Condors eat sea mammals, mussels, dead bodies, cattle, dear’s flesh, rabbits, dead goats, giant sloths, dead fish, ground squirrels, dead horses, mice, rats, skunks, whales, and sheep, and mastodons during the prehistoric times. A California Condor’s young eats regurgitated food from the crop of their parents. A young chick eats sixteen times a week.
The life cycle of a California Condor starts with an egg. The egg has a greenish or blunt tint. California Condors can only hatch one egg at a time. Incubation takes about 50-60 days. The egg can hold about one pint of water. The female and mail has to be six or seven to have its first baby. The mates stay together for their whole life.
The Term Paper on The Struggle For The California Condor
Lorin McNulty McNulty 1 Environmental Biology Biology Mid-Term 10 April 2000 THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CALIFORNIA CONDOR The natural environment of the modern world has been under siege for the better part of the past century. This has been due to many factors. The waste produced by an ever-expanding human population has tainted much of the natural resources available to both humans and animals alike. ...
The California Condor is a very rare and endangered animal. In 1880 California put a law that it was illegal to shoot a California Condor. When the California Condor produced its egg a raven would come by and eat the egg before it hatched because the egg take about 50-60 days to hatch. Farmers thought that California Condors killed their cattle so they killed it. Farmers would put out poisoned baits for the coyotes then the condors ate it. For the future, to save the California Condors we need to be really careful to what we do because one disease can wipe out the California Condors forever.
