For a long time, the California condor seemed to be flying toward extinction. The fates of the earliest ones released to the California wild nearly dashed all hope. In 2015, the wild population increased itself; more condor chicks hatched and fledged in the wild than the number of condors that died. There hadn’t been an electrocution in 12 years, a sign that adult condors were teaching power-line safety to their offspring. It’s hard to imagine the California condor winning in that calculus.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 18, 2020 08:37 UTC