The State - News from May 29, 1988

The first California condor successfully conceived in captivity was moved to larger quarters at the San Diego Wild Animal Park so that the bird can grow up in closer contact with other members of the nearly extinct species, a park spokesman said. The chick, Molloko, weighed 6 3/4 ounces when it hatched April 29. It weighed in at 3 pounds, 12 ounces when it was moved from an “infant Isolette” to a sand-floor pen in the park’s “condorminium,” said spokesman Tom Hanscom. In its new pen the chick can see two of the 14 California condors housed at the park. The other 13 condors that make up the rest of the species’ total population are housed at the Los Angeles Zoo. No condors are left in the wild.