The Zoo de Chapultepec has five beautiful Japanese penguins as tenants since May 23.
They are three females and two males, all about a year and a half old. In other words, they are still very young.
Fernando Gual Sill, General Director of Zoos and Wildlife Conservation of CDMX, explained why they were brought in. In a video posted on the sedema X account explains that they will seek their reproduction and that people can get to know them.
“Their diet includes herring, mackerel, capelin, sierra and squid,” he said.
The move was framed within the collaboration agreement between our CDMX and the Japanese city of Nagoya, original home of the 🐧🐧.
The Japanese penguins that arrived in Chapultepec still do not have names
Upon arrival, the five penguins were quarantined and have not yet been named. Like has happened before we hope that the zoo will invite the community to contribute with proposals. What would you name them?
What we know for now is that the smaller one weighs only 2.7 kilos, while the larger one is male and weighs. 3.7 k. They still need to continue growing.
When they reach adulthood, Humboldt penguins can be up to 70 centimeters tall and weigh between 4 and 4.5 kilograms. Males are usually larger than females.
In a press release, the Secretariat of the Environment (Sedema) specified that its trip from Asia lasted 12 hours.
In case you didn’t know, the Humboldt penguin is an endangered species.
Veterinarians, specialized caretakers and biologists are closely monitoring their acclimatization, making sure that everything goes smoothly, so that they will soon feel at home.