Both Gentoo parents build a circular nest made of stones ... Chinstrap eggs are more rounded than other penguins’ eggs. They measure 7cm long and 5.5cm wide, but at maximum weigh in a bit lighter at ...

Chicks from eggs laid early have a longer period of ... as some individuals may be hit harder than others.” With gentoo penguins, those human stressors can include anything from climate change ...

Keepers are hopeful two Gentoo penguin eggs will begin hatching soon as well. "All going well, it won't be long before visitors can spot the youngsters with the rest of our colony at Penguins Rock ...

Two female gentoo penguins are new moms at an aquarium in Spain and are raising the baby chick they adopted as an egg. According to local media, officials at Oceanographic Valencia say that ...

The baby, a sub-species of the gentoo penguin, was born to parents Diane ... of a European breeding programme Mr Wilkinson said: "The egg did start to hatch on Saturday and we got a successful ...

Zookeepers said Sphen and Magic were natural at parenting and had been given a real egg from a couple who ... which according ...

Fewer eggs hatched, fewer chicks fledged ... relatively high divorce rates are not universal across all penguin species. Gentoo, yellow-eyed and Magellanic penguins, for instance, demonstrate ...

Gentoo penguins, a sub-Antarctic species ... The pair later began to build a nest together and were eventually given foster ...

Three gentoo penguin babies were born at Ocean Park earlier this month, and will become the latest animal ambassadors for the Hong Kong theme park. The three babies are in good health ...

Sphen and his male gentoo penguin partner Magic ... duties and same-sex couples in captivity have occasionally adopted eggs before. The aquarium said in a statement Sphen died this month.