{"id":103635,"date":"2019-06-07T08:51:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=103635"},"modified":"2019-06-07T08:51:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-07T12:51:03","slug":"rosamond-gifford-zoo-introduces-new-penguin-chicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=103635","title":{"rendered":"Rosamond Gifford Zoo Introduces New Penguin Chicks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Two new\nHumboldt penguin chicks that hatched at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in May were\nintroduced to the public by Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon today. The\ncounty executive welcomed the new arrivals at the zoo\u2019s Penguin Coast exhibit,\nwhere they hatched on May 1 and May 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur zoo has\nhad amazing success breeding Humboldt penguins, which are under threat in the\nwild,\u201d McMahon said. \u201cI want to congratulate the zoo on these new chicks and spotlight\nthe work our zoo does on behalf of endangered species.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two new\nchicks are both males and are named Peru and Lima (\u201cLee-ma\u201d) in honor of their\nnative habitat off the coast of Peru. The zoo adopted an \u201cI Love New York\u201d\ntheme for naming new animals this year. Both Peru and its capital, Lima, are\nnames of towns in New York \u2013 Peru in Clinton County and Lima in Livingston\nCounty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoo Director\nTed Fox said the new chicks were bred as part of the Species Survival Plan for\nHumboldt penguins overseen by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA). More\nthan 55 penguin chicks have hatched at the zoo since it joined the SSP in 2005,\nand many have gone to other AZA institutions to help preserve the species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two new\nchicks are the offspring of penguin parents Frederico and Poquita. Foster\nparents Venti and Isa are helping to raise the older chick, Peru, to give both\nchicks a strong start, Fox said. The parents will feed the chicks until they\nare big enough to take fish directly from keepers. Penguins at the zoo are\nhand-fed twice a day so animal care staff can keep records of how much food\neach bird consumes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fox said Peru\nweighed 67 grams (only .14 of a pound) when he hatched on May 1, and he now\nweighs 1952 grams, or 4.3 pounds. Lima weighed 52 grams (only .11 of a pound)\nwhen he hatched on May 4, and he now weighs 1680 grams, or 3.7 pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new\nchicks bring the number of birds in the zoo\u2019s Humboldt penguin colony to 34.\nThey will remain off exhibit with their parents until their waterproof feathers\ncome in, then they will practice their swimming skills in the small indoor pool\nbefore joining the rest of the colony later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two new Humboldt penguin chicks that hatched at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo in May were introduced to the public by Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon today. The county executive welcomed the new arrivals at the zoo\u2019s Penguin Coast exhibit, where they hatched on May 1 and May 4. \u201cOur zoo has had amazing success breeding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23813,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-qXx","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/CE-with-Penguin-Chicks-6-6-19.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}