Rescued 'abandoned' penguin chicks survival similar to colony rates

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 13:02 in Biology & Nature

Abandoned penguin chicks that were hand-reared and returned to the wild showed a similar survival rate to their naturally-reared counterparts, according to a study published October 22, 2014 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Richard Sherley from University of Cape Town and colleagues.

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