Penguin population picks up as endangered chick is newest attraction at Edinburgh Zoo By Denny Andonova
Updated: 25/04/2021, 10:47 am
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The baby penguin
An endangered chick has come into the world at Edinburgh Zoo just in time to celebrate World Penguin Day.
The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) attraction has announced the arrival of the first chick of the breeding season – an endangered northern rockhopper penguin chick.
Staff at the wildlife conservation charity are hopeful gentoo penguin eggs will also begin hatching soon.
As well as being part of the European breeding programme for northern rockhopper penguins, RZSS has worked to help safeguard the species in the wild for many years – including carrying out genetic analysis to understand how connected populations are across the distant island groups that they live on.
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