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FINAL RESEARCH WORK AND EXPLANATION OF ANIMALS IN DANGER OF

EXTINCTION

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 El Cóndor Andino

Theme:

• Endangered Animals

Instructor:
• Armando Castromonte Almendrades

students:
• Morales Cano Sergio Cristofer
• Natividad Chávez Yor
• Huamán espinosa Alberth Leo
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 Cóndor andino (Andean Cóndor)

There are only one hundred

Currently, imprecisely, it is
ninety especies of cóndor in
estimated that there are
Perú, that inhabit the Andes
between 600 and 2,500 condors
mountain range. Among these
in Peru, since only the
species we have the Californian
announced census will provide
condor, jungle condor,
real information on the subject.
scavenger condor among others.
 Where does the condor live and
what does its name mean?

its meaning habitat

the condor inhabits

His name in Quechua is mountainous terrain. It glides
Kuntur and the Incas on air currents, being able to
believed that he was reach more than 8000m in
immortal. It height. It is distributed in the
represented the Andes Mountains in Venezuela,
Jananpacha, the earth Colombia, Ecuador, Peru,
above, the sky and the Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
future. In our country it covers the
western and southern sectors.
 Characteristics of
the Andean Cóndor:

The head has an elongated The Andean condor is one of

caruncle in the form of a the largest raptor species in
fleshy crest that starts the neotropics. The length of
from the wax to the middle the body is 120 cm, reaching
of the head. His collar is a wingspan of 300 cm and a
visible white at the base of weight of around 12 kg. Its
his neck, the rest of his beak is creamy-white at the
body being black. It has a tip and black at the base. It
large white area on the has gray legs and yellowish-
dorsal wing and its tail is brown irises. The male has a
black. bare reddish neck and head.
 andean Condor behavior

The Andean condor is

monogamous, it chooses a mate They have communal roosts and
and will remain with it for life. their use increases during the
It is very active during the day summer and fall. Social
and spends most of its time interactions in the roosts show
gliding in the air. Both adult a dominance hierarchy of males
and juvenile condors are known over females and adults over
to perch communally in high- young.
altitude ravines and cliffs to
rest, but not to breed as
occurs with vultures.
 Reproduction of the Andean condor

It has been proven that, to Before appearing, the male

cut his partner, the male and female Andean condor go
condor gives the female small through a period of
twigs, which he then places "coexistence" of 2 months in
under his wings. This very the nest. Once mating has
particular form of courtship occurred, the female will lay
has been detected in animals a single egg, which will be
in captivity and has not been incubated for 2 months by
corroborated in those both members of the couple,
specimens in the wild. alternately.
 because they are in
danger of extinction?

The Andean cond

or as a species
is
in extinction du
e to the decline
in
its populations
due to habitat
loss
and poisoning cau
sed by feeding
on
intoxicated anim
als or by the
poisoned baits t
hat some hunter
s
and ranchers pla
ce illegally, also
due to its low ra
te of reproducti
o n,
it is a species ex
tremely vulnera
ble
to human activit
y, especially sin
ce
some farmers c
onsider it a thre
at
due to alleged a
ttacks on livest
ock.
 feeding and conservation of the
Andean condor

feeding conservation

The feeding of the Andean

One of the proposed
condor is basically composed
conservation measures, the need
of dead animals, only on
to carry out a census of their
certain occasions can it hunt
populations, identifying the
small prey. Its great flight
individuals within these groups,
capacity allows it to travel
which could be done with the
long distances in search of
help of photographs and videos.
food in times of scarcity.
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