California Condor Eben Mcmillan 10 may 1964 and approached them carefully, and when reaching out to pick at them, with its beak, the adult condor stood back as far as it could and still reach the guts. When the guts would move, or being pulled by the adult, the bird would jump or otherwise flip its wing, as if in preparation to jump back quickly. The immature bird stood by and watched the adult. At times when both condor would move away from the guts, a few feet, one of the buzzards would dash in and nibble at the pile. On these OCCASIONS the young condor would run after the Buzzard in a lumbering, gungly fashion, and chase them Soon the Condors became Confident. The adult would Stand on the guts and tear Pieces off, Sometimes eating the Piece on the spot or sometimes dropping it on the ground from whence the young condor would retrieve it, and eat Same. At no time did I see the adult condor attack the young one, although the young condor showed great respect towards the adult and appeared to suspect the adult of attacking it. On occasion both young and adult condors would stand and lower their heads near the ground moving their heads about close to one another. I could Not see that anything was accomplished by this holding heads together other than as might be a show of affection between Parent and offspring. The young bird did show subservience to the adult bird. After these two condor had cleaned the guts up, quite well, they both hiked uphill thirty feet and stood briefly in the shade of an Oak. The Buzzards moved back to the remains of the Offal and picked at what remained. Several.