
APC002-00001
A captive-born mother and chick wait in the safety of a pre-release pen. Once they ventured out into the wild, however, the mother was killed within two weeks by a raptor.
Keywords
- attwater's
- Attwater's prairie-chicken
- bird
- captive-born
- chick
- chicken
- coastal
- down to a handful
- endangered
- federally
- geographic
- Grass
- hen
- Keywords: Attwater's Prairie Chicken
- killed
- magazine
- national
- national geographic
- national geographic magazine
- nature
- Pen
- Prairie
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- Predation
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- wild
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