By Benjamin Brink, The Oregonian
June 28, 2013
The five new Humboldt penguin chicks that hatched at the
Oregon Zoo are now three months old and have begun to emerge from their
nest boxes and explore their surroundings. The young penguins are easy
to identify: they are not the stark black and white of adult Humboldts
and don't have the distinctive horseshoe-shaped band in the chest area.
Irwin, the chick named for Australian wildlife expert and “crocodile
hunter” Steve Irwin, waddles over the rocky terrain and darts through
the clear water of the zoo’s penguinarium, but often just stands still
as if thinking. Irwin, is as tall as his parents but is still being fed
by his mom and dad. At this age parents feed their young by eating
fish, digesting it, and then regurgitating it into their beak and into
the baby penguin's mouth. The keepers call it "fish smoothie."
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