The Andean condor, native to the Andes mountain range and surrounding regions, faces significant threats primarily due to human activities. Human persecution remains the most critical threat, driven by the mistaken belief that condors attack livestock and the use of their body parts in traditional medicines.
Its diet is based on carrion and sometimes small species or with little life time. It also includes the bodies of large mammals such as horses, goats, llamas, alpacas, deer, rheas, whales, etc.
features
This results in the best resting places in the caves or cliffs being occupied by the dominant males and the rest being designated for females and their chicks.
It is an animal that remains active during the day because they are seen flying most of the time. As for social behavior, the male who dominates over the female and the adult to the minor.
inhabit
Inhabits the cliffs and caves of the high mountains, grasslands and even deserts.
It is present in the mountain range of the Andes of South America and the Santa Martha Mountains, in Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Chile and Argentina
that threatens him
food competition with other scavengers
loss of their natural habitat
The biggest threat he faces is human persecution, since some parts of his body are used as medicine, also because he is believed to attack cattle
