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Mumbai: 'Homesickness' may have killed Humboldt penguin
Updated On: 27 October, 2016 07:09 AM IST | | Laxman Singh
<p>Byculla zoo is now left with seven penguins, but they are a ‘homesick’ lot. The enclosure that is to be their final home is not ready yet, so the birds have spent the last three months cooped up in a tiny quarantine area that is 80% smaller</p>


Byculla zoo is now left with seven penguins, but they are a ‘homesick’ lot. The enclosure that is to be their final home is not ready yet, so the birds have spent the last three months cooped up in a tiny quarantine area that is 80% smaller. Mumbai corporators are now alleging that such stressful conditions may have led to the death of the female penguin, Dory.
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