Today just happens to be World Penguin Day!
The Woodland Park Zoo is celebrating the recent birth of three Humboldt penguins as the world celebrates all penguins.
Three separate sets of parents welcomed three penguin chicks at the end of March and the first week of April. The penguin parents -- who are likely to mate for life -- shared incubation duties in the nest for 40 to 42 days.The sex of the chicks is unknown pending DNA testing.Before they’re available to the public, the chicks will have around-the-clock access to a shallow pool, where they can learn to swim in a less crowded and more controlled environment.
Zoo officials expect the chicks to join the outdoor habitat and larger pool sometime in the early summer.Expand
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