Associated Press
Originally published 08:34 a.m., June 22, 2009
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The Tennessee Aquarium has its first penguin chick.
Macaroni penguins Chaos and Paulie are the proud parents. Although the unnamed baby has come out of its shell, the parents will continue to sit on it for 14 days.
For that reason little is known about the baby bird. The Chattanooga Times Free Press reports even the penguins’ closest caretaker, Amy Graves, didn’t get a good look at it until Saturday. But she has heard a very soft peeping since it was hatched on Thursday.
Aquarium officials say they will post pictures and videos online. Once the bird is more independent, visitors will be able to see it live at the aquarium.
There are three other unhatched eggs laid by two sets of penguin parents in the exhibit. If those eggs are fertile, they should all have hatched by mid-July.
Source:
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/jun/22/heard-not-seen-penguin-baby-alive-and-peeping/
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