The world’s oldest penguin has celebrated her thirty seventh birthday with a cake fabricated from fish and ice.
Humboldt penguin Spneb has lived at Paradise Park zoo, in Hayle, Cornwall, since 1988.
Marking the event on Wednesday, April 16, the park offered her with a birthday cake that includes her favourite fish – sprats – topped with a fluffy toy penguin made by certainly one of her keepers.
Spneb’s keepers say data stored by zoos world wide recommend she is the oldest of her species throughout the globe and is “superb for her age.”
Humboldt’s penguins’ life expectancy normally ranges between 10 to fifteen years.
Becky Waite, certainly one of Spneb’s keepers, mentioned: “Spneb continues to have a very good urge for food, though she’s an aged penguin.
“She is doing amazingly properly for her age.
“We now have a colony of 24 Humboldt’s penguins, together with two chicks.
“Spneb likes to keep watch over all the children whereas searching of her field, and her favourite companion is likely one of the older males.”
Born in 1988 at Birdworld, Surrey, Spneb arrived at Paradise Park shortly afterwards.
Her uncommon identify was picked by keepers after she underwent remedy for a harmful fungal illness known as Aspergillosis in 2007.
On the time, she was being handled with a drug ‘Sp’ utilizing a nebuliser, or a ‘neb’ – ultimately giving her the bizarre identify.
The Humboldt penguin is native to the west coast of South America, particularly the Pacific coasts of Chile and Peru.
