{"id":358573,"date":"2025-08-20T04:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358573\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T04:52:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T04:52:16","slug":"london-zoos-penguins-and-giant-tortoises-hit-the-scales-on-weigh-in-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/358573\/","title":{"rendered":"London Zoo&#8217;s penguins and giant tortoises hit the scales on weigh-in day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Most) Humboldt penguins are masters of weigh-in daypublished at 11:31 British Summer Time 19 August<\/p>\n<p>11:31 BST 19 August<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Penguins in the enclosure\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4d4c22db-4932-49a5-9634-9ede802fb12a.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scale is no stranger to the Zoo&#8217;s Humboldt penguins, who have been practising weigh-ins all year round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Their zookeeper, Jess Ray, tells us that the penguins have been getting accustomed to the scales since they were chicks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">That by no means makes it an easy job for Jess and her fellow zookeepers. They&#8217;ll be weighing all 79 of the Zoo&#8217;s penguins across a few days. The toughest of whom, is called Petal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;She\u2019s quite a shy penguin. She\u2019s gotten more and more comfortable over time but she\u2019s usually the tricky one,&#8221; says Jess. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Humboldt penguins are typically found on the islands and rocky coasts of Peru and Chile.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Contrary to popular belief, only four of 18 penguin species live in cold climates full-time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Most) Humboldt penguins are masters of weigh-in daypublished at 11:31 British Summer Time 19 August 11:31 BST 19&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,16,15,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-358573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-uk","10":"tag-united-kingdom","11":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115059303682047612","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}