Source - To science, she’s simply known as “184.” But on the empirical cuteness scale, the world’s first test-tube penguin scores a “100.” The still unnamed baby Magellanic penguin was hatched at SeaWorld in San Diego 12 weeks ago, but the first images of her were released to the public this week.
She’s the first penguin to be born using artificial insemination, a technique researchers say will help them increase diversity in the captive penguin population and help their studies of the creatures.
“The goal of our research center is to study a species’ reproductive biology, to learn as much as we can about that and use this to not only monitor the health of not only our zoological populations but wild populations as well,” said Sea World’s reproductive center Scientific Director Dr. Justine O’Brien.
The baby penguin is reportedly doing well. Twelve weeks after her birth, she is mingling with the natural-born penguin population and has transitioned from being hand-fed by a team of biologists to eating fish on her own.
“The goal of our research center is to study a species’ reproductive biology, to learn as much as we can about that and use this to not only monitor the health of not only our zoological populations but wild populations as well,” said Sea World’s reproductive center Scientific Director Dr. Justine O’Brien.
The baby penguin is reportedly doing well. Twelve weeks after her birth, she is mingling with the natural-born penguin population and has transitioned from being hand-fed by a team of biologists to eating fish on her own.
Did everyone else already know this? That we can make baby penguins in labs? Because we totally can. Granted I'm just seeing this story now - it's from August - so there's a pretty decent chance that this frumpy looking little guy is dead, but still this is a definite step in the right direction. Can you even imagine when we finally get to the point where we can cook up any animal we want willy nilly? Just whip up a fresh Dodo bird, pop that shit out of the tube and into the deep fryer. I can get on board with that. I definitely wouldn't eat a penguin, but a Dodo bird? I could murder a Dodo bird any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
Maybe change the name before you release the story to the public...184? Holy depressing. I'm just imagining rows upon rows of dead floating mutant penguin fetuses (feti?) in the bowels of SeaWorld. It's probably right next door to the SeaWorld's Orca Torture Chamber of Secrets. No joke they mentally warp those things, lock 'em up in cramped spaces and pitch black rooms. SeaWorld is full of a bunch of masochistic dickwads. Yeah, I saw Blackfish.
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