Penguin Breeding in Edinburgh

With 2 photosThe Scottish National Zoological Park at Edinburgh has been notably suc- cessful in keeping and breeding penguins.It is happy in possessing as a friend and benefactor, Mr Theodore E. Salvesen, head of the firm of Christian Salvesen & Co., Leith, to whose interest and generosity it owes the great number of penguins it has possessed.Of the seventeen known species of pen- guins, seven are represented in the Park, the king (Aptenodytes patagonica Miller), gentu (Pygoscelis papua Forster), ringed (Pygoscelis antarctica For- ster), macaroni (Catarrhactes chrysolophus Brandt), Magellan (Spheniscus magellanicus Forster), Peruvian (Spheniscus humboldti Meyen) and black-footed (Spheniscus demersus L.).The collection has risen as high in number as 180 individuals, but at present numbers only about 70.The first penguins received in the Park were three king penguins which arrived from South Georgia in January 1914.One of these three was fully adult and was therefore not less than two years old at the time of its arrival.I am happy to say that it is still alive.It is a female and was the mother of the first chick hatched in the Park.