California Condor #209 aka "Shadow"

Hatchday: May 15th, 1999 Hatch location San Diego Wild Animal Park Sex: Male Current Status: Partnered with Tiny (#236) Offspring: No documented breeding attempts Current location: Big Sur, CA

In the early days, Shadow hung out with the other males in his release cohort, spending day after day idling around and sometimes getting into trouble. A well attended meeting of condor biologists years ago had a guest speaker who specialized in human juvenile delinquency. Program administrators were noticing that juvenile humans with too much idle time got into the same undesirable patterns as juvenile condors with a lot of extra time! Some of the parallels were very helpful, and gradually, Shadow's behavior became more condor normal. In more recent years, Shadow has paired with dainty female condor, Tiny (#236).

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