Perhaps that can be excused as Brown, a Detroit Zoo penguin keeper, and Van Dam, the zoo’s curator of birds, have been mingling in the menagerie for decades. “I need to remember how lucky I am ...

Hot on the heels of the playful, pudgy, pygmy hippo who became a viral meme from her home in a Thailand zoo, a nine-month-old king penguin chick has shot to fame for his 22.5kg (50lb) build ...