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California Condors Survive Lead-Poisoned Gut Piles: Commentary

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Two condors watched their chick emerge from its egg on March 23 at Pinnacles National Monument in central California -- the park’s first condor hatching in more than 100 years.

The joy, shared in the following days by hundreds of human gawkers, was soon clouded by an insidious menace.