Mother Condor

The Mother Condor is a character from the 1944 Donald Duck animated short, Contrary Condor.
==Background==
The mother condor is a large adult female that lives in the Andes. She is shown to have a plumage of black feathers all around her body with a ruff of downy white feathers located below her head. Despite her fledgling worried about Donald Duck interacting with its parent's eggs, she is shown to have a motherly personality to Donald and the condor fledgling - though her dialogues only consist of squawking as she does not speak.
==Role in the short==
As Donald Duck arrives at the Andes and arrives at a condor nest to take a condor's egg, she sees the mother condor flying above him which he gets the condor fledgling out of the hatched egg. As the mother condor nests on the egg where Donald is hiding, Soon, as the egg cracks, Donald manages to free himself by using a piece of the eggshell to get off the condor. To avoid getting scolded, Donald then disguises himself as one of the condor's chicks as the narrator explains the lessons of when the mother condor takes her chick out of the nest to teach him how to fly and plans to fly become cancelled whenever thunderstorms occur.
Instead of trying to scold Donald, the mother condor then teaches Donald how to fly like one, to which down below the nest is very deep. During practice, she constantly teaches him how to fly, to which Donald excuses himself to the condor that he has a broken wing. The narrator then explains that if the mother condor shows favoritism, the young condor becomes jealous. Jealous that his mother is "taking care" of Donald, he decides to reject him, to which Donald plans to make a decoy to distract the mother condor so that he can get collect the egg safely. Triumphantly collecting the egg, the young condor then takes the egg Donald has been hiding all the time, just as he and the egg fall into the spot where the mother condor cries over the "loss" of her newborn baby (actually a decoy created by Donald in order to distract her). The mother condor then happily praises Donald for finding her missing egg, to which the narrator explains that it is difficult to get an egg without the bird present.
==Trivia==
*The Mother Condor's crying was later recycled in the 1953 Disney animated film, Peter Pan. In this case, this effect was used for a seagull that cried after Mr. Smee accidently shaved her plumage while nesting on Captain Hook's head which the seagull flies away tearfully after Smee shaved some of her plumage.
*In real life, condor sounds consist of hisses and snorts whenever condors defend their nests - though they are usually silent, unlike the mother condor who was inserted with chicken-like clucking instead of realistic condor sounds
Category:Vultures
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Category:Females
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Category:Characters who fly