Penguin enclosures completed in Tauranga

28/10/2011

Five penguin enclosures have been completed in Tauranga and five more are under construction.
The enclosures at the Wildlife Response Centre at Mount Maunganui will house the birds until it is safe for them to be released into the environment.
Alternate Wildlife Response Centre manager Curt Clumpner says the penguins are taking to the enclosures like, well, penguins to water.
He says they have pools to swim in and can socialise with the others now they're cleaned and healthy.
Three hundred and 88 live birds being cared for at the centre.

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