A rare chick has been hatched and raised by a same-sex penguin couple at Chester Zoo. The Humboldt chick is one of 10 to have hatched at the zoo, in what it described as a "bumper year for penguins". Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male penguins, "stepped in to help raise one of two eggs laid by another penguin pair, Wotsit and Peach", the zoo said.

A same-sex penguin couple is helping raise one of 10 rare chicks. The Humboldt penguin chick is being reared at Chester Zoo by Scampi and Flounder, who were given one of two eggs laid by another pair, Wotsit and Peach. Bird experts at the zoo divided the eggs to improve the chances of both chicks fledging successfully.

Chester Zoo has been celebrating a bumper year for penguins after ten rare chicks hatched at the zoo. The rare new arrivals are highly threatened Humboldt penguins, one of the most at risk out of the world’s 17 species of penguin, and began hatching from their eggs between April 16 and 28.