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LEAD POISONING

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Another main reason why condors arrive to the Rescue Centre is from lead poisoning.

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LEAD INTAKE

The primary source of lead in the environment is due to hunting activities, where dead animals left in nature have in their body hazardous lead chips or remains of lead from the bullet trajectory.  When the condor, as well as other scavengers, feed from these dead animals, it becomes intoxicated and dies.

 

GUNSHOT

Some unscrupulous hunters shoot at the condors, sometime with the erroneous belief that they attack their livestock, when in reality it is a scavenger species.

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