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Mumbai zoo's resident penguin gives birth to country's 'First' chick
Updated On: 16 August, 2018 12:20 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online desk
Zoo officials had also kept an artificial incubator on standby, in case Molt and Flipper were unable to hatch the egg. "We were already prepared to have a new member in the penguin family here," the BMC official said
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The BMC had brought eight Humboldt penguins to the city last year and is left with seven now
Two years after seven Humboldt penguins made the Byculla Zoo here their home, the family now has a new member, a chick, the first to be born in the country, an official said today. The chick hatched out of the egg at the civic-run zoo around 8 pm yesterday, he said. "The chick appeared to be active and its mother 'Flipper' was trying to feed it," the zoo's director, Dr Sanjay Tripathi, said.
It is the first penguin to be born in the country, an official of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said. Flipper had laid a single egg on July 5. The incubation period is generally 40 days, Tripathi said. 'Molt', the youngest of the seven penguins in the zoo, and Flipper, who is the oldest of the lot, have been a couple for a while, he said.
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