Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire shuts their Humboldt penguin enclosure

Longleat Safari Park in Wiltshire is home to dozens of the hand-reared Humboldt penguins and some of them have died after contracting the avian strain of the disease. Hence, the authorities of the safari park has been forced to shut down their penguin enclosure following death of a number of the birds due to malaria from mosquitoes.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 21 September 2016.

Visitors to the park were left devastated after zoo keepers at the park shut Penguin Island in order to allow staff space and time to care for the remaining birds.
This breed of Humboldt penguins are usually seen around coastal areas of Peru and Chile and are now officially listed as 'vulnerable' by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.


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