Fluffball and Squirt

Names bestowed by our FB friends, this is a follow-up post on two of our yellow-eyed penguin chicks. Tragedy has befallen them: their mother was found dead (inconclusive necropsy report) - in other words, don't know why she died - and so they are now raised in our rehab facility. Here they are on their favourite box on the right. They have a cell-mate who also lost weight in the colony. All three are doing very, very well on the salmon smolt sponsored by New Zealand King Salmon. Soon they will be old enough to be released - and fat enough, giving them a decent chance of making it!