A rare chick has been hatched and raised by a same-sex penguin couple at Chester Zoo. The Humboldt chick is one of 10 to have hatched at the zoo, in what it described as a "bumper year for penguins". Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male penguins, "stepped in to help raise one of two eggs laid by another penguin pair, Wotsit and Peach", the zoo said.

A gay penguin couple have stepped in to hatch and raise a baby chick after it was born at Chester Zoo. Males Scampi and Flounder took on the parenting responsibility after ten rare Humboldt penguin chicks arrived at the attraction in April.