Lydia DesRoche has worked with everything from snakes to goats in her years as a Broadway animal trainer, and now she is the ...

The new San Francisco Opera production will likely appeal to children of all ages with its tactile, immersive world and ...

A carefully crafted figure of a goose and a woman suggests that art reflecting spiritual beliefs entered a new phase among early villagers in the Middle East.

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The Paperhand Puppet Project debuted its show, The Gift, just over a month after its studio in Saxapahaw flooded during Tropical Storm Chantal. Executive Director Donovan Zimmerman said the theatre is ...

The Herds, a large-scale public art project featuring life-sized animal puppets, will arrive in London from 27 to 29 June 2025 as part of a journey across Africa and Europe. Created by The Walk ...

On February 25, 2025, a king vulture chick hatched at the Bronx Zoo in New York. Zookeepers are hand-raising the chick using a puppet to prevent human imprinting. This rare birth helps preserve ...

A few decades ago, William G. Conway — the late ornithologist who’s largely responsible for reimagining the Bronx Zoo as the conservation-minded institution we know today — had his upper lip bitten ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A baby vulture at a New York zoo is being fed not by another bird but by hand puppet — a decades-old technique used to ensure the chick doesn’t identify too closely with its human ...

It’s a technique the Bronx Zoo has been using for more than 40 years. Gabby Rosato, a senior keeper in the ornithology department, is putting on what’s known as a ghost outfit. The bird is being ...