Category: Birds

Pippa the cockatoo has been trying to hatch a bowl of Cadbury’s cream eggs. After two weeks there is still no sign of any chicks.

Why put penguins on a treadmill? To monitor their heart rate of course. As part of an experiment to see how much energy penguins use to find food a group of scientists first monitored ten penguins progress on a treadmill, so that their heart rates could be calculated. The penguins were then released complete with…

Meet Stumpy the four-legged duck. Stumpy has a rare mutation which means he has an extra pair of legs.