Interview with Animal Specialist, Beatrice Anderson

Beatrice Anderson has been studying Peruvian wildlife for 2 weeks and has considerable time in the field. We turn to her expertise as we visit Cruz del Condor.

Erin: Where do you find Condors?

Ms. Anderson: We found them at this place where there were bees that I was scared of and they lived in caves and it was like Coco [sic] canyon or something. They live like in cliffs, like if they find a hole in them.

Erin: What do they eat?

Ms. Anderson: Dead stuff

Erin: Do they have relatives?

Ms. Anderson: Turkey vultures or vultures

Erin: How big are they?

Ms. Anderson: “Condors? They are very big. I kinda feel like their wings are like 5 feet almost and their body all together is like 7 feet or 6 feet. Their beaks are also pretty big.

(Fact checkers have found that Ms. Anderson grossly underestimated their size. Wikipedia clocks their wing span at 9-10ft, second to the albatross as the largest land bird)

What did you think when you first saw them?

Ms. Anderson: I thought they were cool and interesting. It was cool when they flew closer to us-like 10 or something feet away. (Accurate.)

We also saw on one part of the trip, we saw 2 babies- we thought they were babies- and a mom that plopped down and got some dead stuff- with their beak probably- and fed it to their babies.

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