Three gentoo penguin chicks hatched in three days at Adventure World

Three gentoo penguin chicks hatched on three days in a row at Adventure World in Shirahama. The park announced the hatchings on November 4, 2026. The first chick hatched on November 2 and weighed 93 grams. The second hatched on November 3 at 85 grams. The third hatched on November 4 at 90 grams. Parents are raising them out of public view. From November 5, a monitor on the second floor of the marine mammal building shows the family live. The park said the chicks can be hard to see because they sit under a parent.

Two more fertile eggs are still being incubated. If those hatch, the park said the gentoo group could reach five chicks. That had not happened when the note was published. The park also said two king penguin chicks were on view upstairs and that a northern rockhopper chick hatched in late October was due to go back to its parents soon. The news in this report is the three gentoo chicks and the two eggs still waiting. It is not a count of gentoo penguins in the wild, where they live around Antarctica.