Friday, June 03, 2011

Mum is a rubber glove - penguin chick fooled into thinking puppet is its mother

An abandoned penguin chick has been fooled into thinking a rubber glove is its mother by zoo keepers at Living Coasts in Torquay, Devon.

They wanted to hand raise the chick but didn't want it to get used to humans - hence a black rubber-glove puppet with red eyes and yellow plume to make the chick think it's being fed by a macaroni penguin adult.

Hasta la pasta, baby!

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