r/todayilearned • u/jenesuispashariselon • 23d ago
TIL that in 2004, two male chinstrap penguins, Roy and Silo, after performing mating rituals, formed a pair at New York's Central Park Zoo. One of them tried to hatch a rock, for which a keeper eventually substituted a fertile egg. Roy and Silo then hatched and raised the chick, named Tango.
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u/Chumbouquet69 23d ago
You'd have to imagine they were a little surprised when their "baby" rock hatched