Conservation
In December 2010, the Brandywine Zoo sent their 29-year-resident condor, Mac, 33 years old, to the San Diego Zoo as part of a condor breeding program. This program has successfully released 83 Andean condors into the wilderness of Venezuela and Colombia. The Brandywine Zoo welcomed a new male Andean condor, Chavin, previously from the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas. He was born in the Los Angeles Zoo & Botanical Gardens in 1986. He is gradually being introduced to the resident female condor, Miss Gryphus. "They are getting to know each other slowly," said Nancy Falasco. Zookeepers hope that the two will mate and produce offspring for this endangered species.
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