Colony Grows by Two
The animal care team at the Zoo’s Conrad Prebys Africa Rocks had reason to celebrate in March: two new African penguin chicks hatched in the penguin habitat. The fluffy chicks—named Doug and Barbara, in honor of Douglas G. Myers, president/CEO of San Diego Zoo Global, and his wife Barbara Myers—were the first chicks hatched at the Zoo from eggs laid by the colony’s resident penguins. Their arrival marked an important milestone for the Zoo’s breeding colony, and added two more individuals to this endangered species’ worldwide population.