Heartwrenching video shared by SeaWorld shows the young hatchling struggling and failing to break free from the shell.
“This is the most exciting thing we’ll do all year, potentially all decade,” Justin Brackett, SeaWorld’s birds curator said Wednesday.
Staff detected movement and noise coming from the egg on Sept. 7, but noticed she hadn’t emerged from the casing.shared by SeaWorld shows the young hatchling struggling and failing to break free from the shell, but only making it through the inner membrane.The SeaWorld team initially poked a hole in the egg, but ultimately needed to break her out from the shell entirely after five days when it became clear the hatchling wasn’t able to do it on her own.
Despite the hiccup, the hatchling has made impeccable progress and is gaining a healthy rate of 5%-10% of her body weight per day — likely thanks to the steady diet of fish and “fish milkshakes” she gobbles down.The unnamed female nestling was born last month and has made tremendous strides in health despite having an arduous hatching experience.
While other penguin males and females share incubation duties, the female emperor usually returns to the sea to feed after laying the egg, leaving the male to incubate the egg for more than two months when it does not eat. They usually mate for life, the World Wildlife Fund says.
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