SEATTLE — Woodland Park Zoo is looking for a boy who helped rescue a rejected penguin egg earlier this month.
According to a news release from the zoo, the boy alerted a zoo keeper to an egg that was sitting on a cliff in the Humboldt penguin exhibit. The keeper scooped it up and brought it indoors, where it was relocated under a pair of foster parents. By the time the keeper went back outside to thank the boy, he was gone.
The rescue was made on April 3 and the egg hatched April 5.
“We are so grateful to this little boy for helping us save this precious bird,” keeper Celine Pardo said. “If a crow or seagull scooped up the egg, it would have been a goner. We’d like to find (the boy) and extend an invitation to go behind the scenes to meet the chick and help name it.”
Humboldt penguins are endangered, making the rescue all the more significant.
Zoo officials described the boy as 7 or 8 years old with blonde, curly hair. He was seen wearing a white T-shirt.
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