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Chester Zoo’s 10 Penguin Chicks: Same-Sex Dads, Celestial Names, Fish Soup

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Chester Zoo’s same-sex penguin duo, Scampi and Flounder, cracked open headlines by hatching one of 10 rare Humboldt chicks, sparking top searches like “do penguins have gay couples?” and “Humboldt penguin conservation.” The chicks, nearly quadrupling in size, are prepped for their first aquatic debut. As penguin manager Zoe Sweetman declared, “It’s fantastic news for the species and a brilliant success for the international conservation breeding programme.”

Having outgrown their burrowed bachelor pads, this penguin batch will be named after constellations—Ursa, Alcyone, Quasar—while the public votes on two. Recent trending queries, “how do penguin chicks learn to swim?” and “what do penguins feed their babies?” come to life as parents regurgitate protein-packed fish soup, an image that leaves even the International Union for Conservation of Nature awestruck with data sheets.

Eight chicks now answer to celestial names while two await their public-voted fates, all weighed and airway-checked before their grand debut into 25mph penguin lap swimming.

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