Condor Chick Born In Wild · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Tuesday April 16, 2002 @10:35AM from the cute-and-cuddly dept.

hank writes "Great news (Yahoo! News link) today on the endangered species front! A condor chick born in the wild is alive and well. Originally, biologists planned on interfering and giving "life support" to the egg; however, biologists were surprisingly pleased to see the father aggressively protecting his young. Wisely, they decided to let nature take control. The chick in Los Padres National Forest in Santa Barbara County is the first conceived, hatched and raised in the wild to survive more than a day. It was 4 days old on Monday. What does this mean for genetic cloning and incubation research? Can nature really repair itself? What do you all think?"

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News for Nerds? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-04-16 23:05 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Or perahps more accurately, "News for acceptably-left-wing politically-correct hippie tree-huggers who are still wearing 20-year-old Birkenstocks?" Can we post Grateful Dead stories too, now? I don't post much any more, mainly because I'm finding during the past year, most of my responses would amount to "holy crap Slashdot sucks".