We cleaned Humboldt early this morning as St. Louis is experiencing excessive heat for the next few days. These penguins are beginning to molt and so far one has completed his molt while another female is just about finished. Guanero, a chick from last fall, is beginning to swell, an early stage of molting when it is visible that the bird is gaining weight and its feathers are sticking out. He looks very much larger than before and once he drops all his feathers, his plumage will look like the adult birds, he will "earn his stripe" as it were.
~Lost train of thought~
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