One of our younger visitors, Cameron Evans (above), spotted making friends with a few of the baby Penguins as they're ferried through the Park in their customised wheelbarrow taxi!
Animal Keeper Fern Daley is captured in the image on the left transporting this year's Humboldt Penguin chicks from their daytime 'creche' near the main penguin pool back to their night-time quarters in the incubation house.
This is a twice-a-day happening at the Park at this time of year - and extremely popular amongst our visitors! The chicks are now between 8 and 10 weeks of age. They're growing fast but won't be ready to join the adult colony on a full-time basis for the next few weeks - when their waterproof adult plumage has grown through.
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