The Platypus and echidna are the world’s only monotremes or egg-laying mammals.
Condors Choose Private Hatching
18 September 2009
Our plan to study the hatching of a new Andean Condor chick using cameras in the nest boxes came unravelled today.
We discovered the adults birds, Connie and Bruce, had used their powerful beaks to dismantle the camera system we'd installed, even taking bits of it back into the nest box.
At first, we thought they'd destroyed the camera, but luckily it survived although we probably won't be able to reconnect it because Connie is expected to lay an egg very soon and we don't want to disturb the birds.
If all goes well, we'll have a new Condor chick in about two months' time.
