Overview
- The male chick hatched on Nov. 21 and is the aquarium’s 53rd African penguin, joining late‑2024 hatchlings Oscar and Duffy.
- Onsite donation boxes collect votes from Jan. 5 to Jan. 19 for one of four names: Scrappy, Zero, Flounder, or Toothless.
- The winning name is scheduled for announcement on Jan. 20, which is Penguin Awareness Day.
- Keepers are hand‑training the three chicks to eat and step on a scale before they grow waterproof feathers and enter the colony at about three months old.
- The naming theme references dragons and sidekicks in a nod to the chick’s mother, Mushu, and donations support SANCCOB’s seabird rescue work.