Zoo goes nuts for penguins
NEW arrivals were welcomed into the world as the Humboldt penguins at Marwell Zoo hatched chicks.
All four nesting pairs of the flightless birds bore children within a few days of each other.
The babies, named after nuts, mark a 100 per cent success rate for this year’s clutch.
Marwell Zoo senior bird keeper, Christopher Kent, said: ‘There will be lots of feeding and maybe a bit of squabbling amongst the colony, but this is all natural behaviour that we expect, especially with a bumper number of chicks this year.’ ‘ Footage shows the moment one of the chicks was born. Peanut, Pistachio, Cashew and Macadamia, are expected to stay in their burrows for 12 w eeks or so .