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CURIOSITY CORNER

SPCA staff use a crow puppet to
feed a baby crow.

HOW CAN A PUPPET HELP A
Baby Bird?

When caring for young animals, wildlife workers

are careful. Take a baby raven at the SPCA
Serving Erie County in New York. His mother

could not be found. Workers wore raven masks CRITTER
when they fed him. They played raven calls. CLUES
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“We were very worried about him imprinting on
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us,” says Jimmy Sevigny, wildlife hospital 1 n the wild, I am a
supervisor. Many birds imprint on, or forever brown-gray color.
When kept as a pet,
remember the first larger, moving thing they see. 2 The ancient Aztecs
I am often pink.
Sevigny doesn’t want wild animals to habituate, or
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become used to people. They need to be able to
of Mexico believed I
am a god in the body
of a salamander.
Sevigny and his team use a crow puppet to feed
crows. They put mirrors in the pens of other birds
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so they see themselves. “We are careful that they
grow it back.
do not see us,” says Sevigny.
4 I never outgrow my
youngest stage of
life. People think that
What should you do if makes me cute!

you see wildlife in need?

Use the Animal Help Now app to find a local

wildlife rehabilitator. Call one before you do
anything else, says Sevigny. Make sure the
animal really needs help from people.

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RIDDLE ANSWER: HE PRESSES THE PAWS BUTTON.