Now more than a month old, the chick required the help of SeaWorld specialists to break through the shell of its egg and surgery to en
An Emperor Penguin chick hatched at SeaWorld San Diego last month has overcome long odds, becoming the first new arrival in more than a decade, the marine park announced Wednesday. While there have been 22 other Emperor Penguin chicks hatched at SeaWorld over the last several decades, this latest chick is the first since 2010. The San Diego marine park is the only facility in the Western Hemisphere where Emperor penguins can be found.
Once ready to hatch, the chick was able to pierce the membrane of the shell but could not break through the tough outer shell due to a beak malformation, Brackett said. 'So our team of zoo specialists and our veterinary team decided that assisting was the only way to safely hatch that chick,' he said. 'For an Emperor penguin, that means slowly chipping pieces of the shell away, to help that chick break through. That whole process takes three days.
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