This was the most magical hike I have ever been on. My sister took my friend and I out to Lava Point to go rock hounding and we found these precious babies instead. California Condors are an endangered species. I chose this species to talk about nonrandom mating to illustrate the fact that mating is species specific. If it weren't, we could have much more easily rehabilitated them by crossing them with turkey vultures or some other corvid. Two Condors reproducing will always have Condor offspring. And luckily, there are much more Condors in the wild now than there have been in decades. Which is why we got to see four adults and one baby perched on trees at Lava Point. It was incredible and I don't think anything will ever top that moment. Probably.
