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Saturday March 1, 2014
Two rare baby penguins, Lila and Gelb, have waddled into the
spotlight, making their first public appearance at a zoo in Hungary. The pair born in January belong to rare African penguins.
The
workers at the zoo in Szegad - about 170 kilometres from Budapest -
have set up areas on Friday for the penguin family and both parents are
taking part in bringing up the little ones. Lila and Gelb are between 40 to 60 centimetres long and weigh between two to four kilos.
The
penguins belong to a species with a population of less than 200,000 - a
tenth of what it was a century ago - and it is not unusual for them to
be born in captivity. Life expectancy is greater at the zoo, about 20 years compared with 10 years in the wild.
The Szeged zoo founded in 1989 is the newest and the largest one in Hungary comprising an area of 45 hectares.
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