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It's A Chick! Sydney's Same-Sex Penguin Couple Welcomes Baby

Sphen and Magic, a male penguin couple, are now dads to their newborn foster chick. The unnamed chick weighed in at 91 grams; its sex will be determined later by a DNA test.
A gentoo Penguin with a newborn chick.

Sphen and Magic, a pair of male gentoo penguins at Sea Life Sydney Aquarium in Australia, are the proud new dads of a 91-gram chick, the aquarium has announced.

The tiny, as-yet unnamed penguin will stay with its dads for the first 5 – 6 weeks of his life,.

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