Here's a feel-good story to send you off to lunch: A pair of penguins that survived a truck crash in East Texas in August have now hatched a penguin chick at Moody Gardens. All together now: Aaaaawwwwwwww!
The baby penguin was born Nov. 12 and is the first of eight chicks expected to hatch in the coming weeks from the penguins that were involved in the crash en route to Galveston from the Indianapolis Zoo. The accident happened when a truck carrying two dozen penguins, tropical fish and an octopus overturned on Highway 59 near Marshall; four penguins and some fish were killed in the wreck. Since then, employees at Moody Gardens have been keeping a close watch on the penguins and report that they're doing well: "We watched them very closely after their arrival," Greg Whittaker of Moody Gardens said in a news release. "Their mating and parenting behavior is a positive sign that they are adjusting to their new environment."
Moody Gardens is taking care of the animals while part of the Indianapolis Zoo is remodeled.
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