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Sea World bird specialist Tiffany Thompson hand feeds a newly-hatched, one-inch-tall baby African pygmy falcon in Orlando. Weighing one one-hundredth of a pound, the tiny bird of prey is fed a healthy gram of chopped rodent meat every four hours with tweezers for the first few weeks of its life.

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