Freedom Baby : Country’s first penguin born in Mumbai

NP NEWS NETWORK
Mumbai 

India’s first Humboldt born penguins on the night of Independence Day at Mumbai’s Byculla zoo.

On July 26, 2016, three male and five female penguins were brought to Mumbai zoo from Coex Aquarium, Seoul in South Korea. Ever since they were brought they had been kept in a quarantine facility where temperatures maintained at 16-`8 degrees Celsius only to be moved into a swanky enclosure in March 2017.

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The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) runs a zoo, which is usually closed on Wednesday, but on occasion of Independence Day. Many visitors are expected to visit the penguins. Since it is the first time that a penguin will be born in the country, a team of doctors, which is continuously monitoring the egg, have also been in touch with their counterparts abroad.

After hatching the egg, it has become India’s first penguin. The baby penguin is stable and under the observation of zoo authorities for 12 hours. After DNA test, sex of penguin will be determined later on Thursday.

Eldest of seven penguins called as penguin flipper laid
Confirming the report Dr. Sanjay Tripathi Director of the Zoo said, “The Humboldt penguin chick hatched out the egg at 8.02 pm on August 15 and it appeared to be active. The mother flipper was trying to feed it too.”

While the sources in the zoo said, “Since July, post pregnancy it was monitoring their movement and the team of specialist doctors are working and studying on it day and night.”

Two years after seven Humboldt penguins made the Byculla Zoo here their home, a four-and-a-half-year-old female among them had laid an egg, in July this year.