Gallery: Conservation Stories
APC004-00002
A heat lamp serves as a surrogate mother for this juvenile Attwater’s prairie-chicken at the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. Captive breeding efforts are the species’ only hope for survival.
Keywords
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- Attwater's prairie-chicken
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- down to a handful
- Egg
- federally
- Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
- geographic
- hatch
- heat lamp
- incubator
- Juvenile
- Keywords: Attwater's Prairie Chicken
- Keywords: endangered
- magazine
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- national geographic
- national geographic magazine
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- Predation
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- Texas
- Texas City
- Young
This photo © Joel Sartore 2021. Image usage guidelines
