Australian zookeepers rehabilitate rare penguin washed up at sea ‘far from home’

Australian zookeepers rehabilitate rare penguin washed up at sea ‘far from home’

According to the zoo, veterinarians at Perth Zoo were busy rehabilitating a northern rockhopper penguin after it was found washed up on a beach in southwest Australia.

This video from Perth Zoo shows Pascale, the cute bird, living a life of luxury in her facility. A zookeeper can be seen feeding her fish.

“Rockhopper penguins are native to islands in the Indian or South Atlantic, so poor little Pascale was quite far from home!” the zoo said. They are considered “one of the rarest penguin species.”

Perth Zoo said when Pascale was found, she was exhibiting an interrupted moult, meaning she had begun her annual feather moult but it was interrupted. Due to this interruption to her natural cycle, Pascale cannot be released into the wild after her rehabilitation.

After her recovery, Pascale would likely be transferred to a zoo in Singapore, where she could be reunited with a male rockhopper penguin previously rehabilitated by Perth Zoo. Image credit: Perth Zoo via Storyful

Video transcript

We’re getting the stuff on the way for you right now.

I’m fine, right?

Isn’t that a better design?

So sweet.

Oh no.

What’s wrong with that?

It’s like it’s a little bit sensitive.

No, 88?

Yes.

We’re getting the stuff on the way for you right now.

Come.

I’m terribly afraid of it.

He was such a strange thing.

So they can play a loser that we’ll take. I don’t know what we would do with them if they showed up in the summer.

It would be really difficult.

Oh, big test.

You know, make an LA video.

Oh.

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