Zoo Wuppertal 30 little penguins imported

Wuppertal zoo has imported a group of 30 little or blue penguins from the Taronga zoo in Sydney.
The birds arrived this week.
Hopefully this will kick start the breeding of these delightful birds.

30 kleine Stars aus Sydney: Wuppertal hat jetzt Zwergpinguine - Wuppertal - Lokales - Westdeutsche Zeitung

(rumours on another chat site say that 15 may come to a collection in the UK)

 

Very interesting news. I honestly thought we'd seen the last of these little guys in Europe (and if some come to the UK, even better!). Good ol' Wuppertal - proper, good-sized group as well - just what's needed.

 

15 of them would go to Edinburgh, is what they said.

 

Jwer mentioned it here too.

http://www.zoochat.com/38/2011-happenings-edinburgh-zoo-202539/index6.html

 

Update; According to rumours on the Dutch forum, all 30 would stay in Wuppertal and Edinburgh would get their own shipment in 2012. Trying to find out what is true...

 

Lets just hope they have more success than Bristol did,,,