If it hatches, this egg could break the jinx of the vulture breeding centre at the Nehru Zoological Park.
An egg laid by a vulture last month in a crucial incubation stage and its progress is being keenly monitored by the staff here. And if it hatches successfully, it would be the first major success for the centre which, in six years of its inception, has had no positive results to boost of.
The vulture breeding centre at the zoo so far had only two instances of the birds laying eggs, but both ended up as doomed episodes. In one case, the egg slipped from the nest and got wasted while in the other case, the egg did hatch but the chick emerged with congenital problems and died within a few days.
A zoo official put the incubation period for a vulture egg at about 55 days to 60 days and said they were expecting it to hatch by third week of December.
“It was laid around first week of November and it is ensured that there is no external disturbance to it. We hope to have some good news in next couple of weeks,” the official said. The project at zoo was set up in the year 2009 with a budget of Rs.41 lakh provided by the Central Zoo Authority.
Nehru zoo officials waiting with bated breath for hatching of an egg laid in the breeding centre
