Offspring at Vienna Zoo Schönbrunn: Critically Endangered Northern Rockhopper Penguins Hatched

"Currently, the chicks are in a separate area in the Polarium, where they are now learning step by step to retrieve food fish from the water. Here, they can already be observed by visitors," said zoo director Stephan Hering-Hagenbeck.

For ten years, the Vienna Zoo has coordinated the European Conservation Breeding Program for Northern and Southern Rockhopper Penguins. "We not only maintain the largest breeding group of Northern Rockhopper Penguins but also have the most successful breeding program in Europe - with twelve young animals this year alone," explained Sabine Frühwirth, zoological assistant at the Vienna Zoo Schönbrunn and studbook keeper for the Rockhopper Penguins. Over 100 offspring from Schönbrunn can be found in other European zoos.

(APA/Red.)

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