Animals are constantly moving to find food, water, suitable habitats, mates and safe places to rest. Because moving requires substantial energy, animals often rely on various biological and behavioral ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It took 12 years for artificial incubation to succeed in Colombia. Andean condors were once targeted due to the belief that they ...

The morning in the Andes felt close to the sky. A boy named Mateo was walking along a mountain path, herding his alpacas.

LIMA (Reuters) - Strapping a giant condor to the back of a raging bull is a central part of an Andean festival celebrated in Peru but some people worried about the endangered vulture's future say it ...

For over 2,000 years, Andean condors have been nesting — and pooping — in the same cliffside grotto high in the Andes. This gargantuan pile of guano is now providing an unprecedented peek deep into ...

High above the peaks of South America’s Andes Mountains flies one of the largest birds on Earth. The Andean condor is a remarkable creature known for its enormous wingspan, incredible endurance, and ...

A team of paleontologists, environmentalists, naturalists and biologists affiliated with a number of institutions in Canada and Argentina has found that guano piles left behind by generations of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Researchers have found high levels of plastics in the diets and regurgitated pellets of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) in Peru. The scientists ...

Chile faces challenges for endangered Andean condors conservation, in Santiago SANTIAGO (Reuters) - An Andean condor being treated in Chile with lead in its blood, a pellet embedded in its skull and a ...

Engineers are finding new ways to make wind turbines more efficient by stealing design cues from one of the world’s heaviest aerial birds, the Andean condor. This is according to new research ...

In a 17-year study, Chilean researchers observed that Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) use landfills as supplemental food sources when natural food is scarce. The researchers found that females and ...

Researchers have found high levels of plastics in the diets and regurgitated pellets of Andean condors (Vultur gryphus) in Peru. The scientists conducted research in two protected areas — the San ...