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Zookeepers celebrate hatching of threatened Humboldt penguin chick

Senior birds keeper Christopher Kent said: “We don’t yet know the sex of the chick. The penguins have been using nesting materials and guano (seabird droppings), as they would in the wild, to make their nests. “We are very much ‘hands off’ with bird rearing and only intervene where absolutely necessary. Echo and Lilly are both experienced parents and they are doing a fantastic job. “Both parents will take turns to incubate the eggs for around 40 days and care for their young once hatched. The chick is fed regurgitated fish by its parents.” Humboldt penguins are found along the coasts of Peru and Chile, and are listed as vulnerable to extinction on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.

Shark research season has begun in Rhode Island

Shark research season has begun in Rhode Island Carlos Muñoz © Jon Dodd A great white shark prowls the Atlantic Ocean. PROVIDENCE Rhode Island shark researchers who normally split the year trolling the state’s Atlantic coastline for roving white sharks spent last season in their office, like castaways, because of COVID-19 restrictions. “It really had us trying to work triple time to get some of the stuff done,” said Jon Dodd, executive director at the Wakefield-based Atlantic Shark Institute. “We simply said the (health) risk was too great. That’s OK, because there are two sides to shark research.”

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