Penguin Amusement!

African Penguin Extravaganza at the New England Aquarium This Summer
September 1, 2010



From the New England Aquarium: Learn more about pipping on the Penguin Blog at http://penguins.neaq.org! For anyone concerned about the eggs in this video, we share your concerns! Here's some information that might clear up a couple questions. The first thing to keep in mind is that the video is a time-lapse montage of many different chicks raised at the Aquarium this year. The eggs stay with the parents for the whole 40 day incubation period and well after they've hatched! Our biologists have to remove the eggs from the parents periodically to check for any problems, like the egg accidentally being cracked before its hatch date. If everything looks OK, as is most often the case, the eggs are returned right back to mom and dad. The same goes once the chick is hatched. The biologists check on their health and weight every couple days, then the chicks are returned to the parents.