First penguin chicks born at California zoo in years as handlers reveal unique rearing plan

Fonte: New York Post

A Bay Area zoo is celebrating the arrival of a pack of baby South American penguins for the first time in years, as zoo officials reveal the chicks will be hand reared in order to ensure success. San Francisco Zoo officials announced the successful hatching of three Magellanic penguin chicks who are “growing steadily” behind the scenes, the press release read. Video posted on the zoo’s Facebook, captured the little fluffy chicks getting used to their new home as squeaks and peeps of the 4-week-old birds fill the Penguin nursery.