The arrival of two male California condors at the Chapultepec Zoo is only the beginning of a new partnership between the Mexico City zoo and the California Condor Recovery Program. Team members from the San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Dirección General de Zoológicos y Vida Silvestre, Instituto Nacional de Ecología and the Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente  joined officials at the Chapultepec Zoo on Jan. 16, 2008 to give the condors their annual veterinary exam.

Two members of the Chapultepec Zoo’s staff caught a California condor in preparation for its yearly veterinary check up.

Michael Mace, San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park curator of birds restrained a California condor while Dr. Fernando Gual-Sill, general director of Zoological Parks and Wildlife in Mexico City, listened to the bird’s vital at the Chapultepec Zoo in January 2008.

In the end, the birds were healthy and the partners joined together with members of the U.S. Embassy in Mexico in front of the condor exhibit to discuss future plans for the Chapultepec Zoo’s involvement in the recovery of North America’s largest bird.

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