This is a huge bird (its wingspan is about 270-320 cm) a real curiosity! Many Native American tribes revered it as a totem, not a coincidence, since its fly is unbelievably beautiful.
Beside hunting them with gun, the growing pollution of oceans also causing its extenuation as the part of the poisoned and dead sea-animals get into its organism then toxins accumulate in its body.
The Andean condor is found in South America, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Peru and Venezuela. He lives in the Andes, 3000-5000 m height.
This is a powerful, massive species which only lives in the opened alpine terrain where airflows are strong and while sailing in the air it’s also looking for its feed such as carcasses and small animals.
Its resting and nesting sites are inaccessible, it is on the opened cliffs at about hundreds of meters high.
It rises to a height of 5000 meters, although usually it flies at around 3000 meters of altitude.
It moves awkwardly on the ground and only remains down until it feeds.
Often flies hundreds of kilometers in search of food.
Almost fully adapted to the consumption of carcasses. Although his feet are big, but weak for picking up a larger bodied animals. Its enormous beak is only capable to tear the softened the flesh of dead animals.
New World vultures’ head and neck are usually bare and bright and the larger species, such as for the condor has thick feather collar around his neck.
It is the heraldic animal of Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador.
This is the first time that Sosto Zoo has introduced this special species from Wuppertal Zoo in Germany, soon a male one is going to arrive to her.
