Record number of penguin chick births at Edinburgh Zoo

PENGUINS at Edinburgh Zoo have p-p-p-picked up some new arrivals 30 newly-hatched chicks from a record-setting clutch of 112 eggs.

It is the first time the zoos famous colony of gentoo penguins have laid more than 100 eggs, a symbolic figure in the centenary year of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.

There are more than 80 eggs still to be hatched, and the head keeper of penguins put the springtime clutch of hatchlings down to a rise in loved-up, first-time penguin couples.

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