Ice, ice baby: Lincoln Park Zoo welcomes new penguin chick

CHICAGO - Lincoln Park Zoo has welcomed a new African penguin chick.

What we know:

It hatched on Oct. 1, after roughly 40 days in incubation. The chick is healthy, and the sex has not yet been determined.

The chick's parents, Rosie and Cecil, as part of the African Penguin Species Survival Plan, a collaborative population management effort among the Association of Zoos and Aquariums institutions.

The chick's foster parents, Liam and Maria, have been raising the little one due to their natural parenting instincts. Cecil and Rosie have not had success raising chicks in the past.

At the chick's last veterinary exam, it weighed 4.23 lbs. It will still be a few weeks before the babe is ready to join the other African penguins at the Robert and Mayari Pritzker Penguin Cove.

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