人与自然:旧金山动物园的小企鹅们毕业了

The five Magellanic chicks (five male, one female) hatched on the zoo's Penguin Island in Mid-May and subsequently spent five weeks the Avian Conservation Center's "fish school," where they learned how to swim and acclimated to their zookeepers. On Saturday, the newly-schooled birds treated onlookers to an overload of adorable as they waddled their way back to Penguin Island in an official graduation ceremony.

这五只小麦哲伦企鹅（四雄一雌）是在五月中旬于动物园里的企鹅岛上孵化的。随后它们在鸟类保育中心的“鱼排学校”度过了五周时间，向动物园工作人员学习游泳，适应水土。周六，这群小毕业生在参加完一场官方的毕业典礼后溜达着回到企鹅岛，它们一路摇晃蹒跚的样子使旁观者不禁大呼“太可爱了”。

The chicks join the zoo's 44 other penguins in their new home -- the largest Magellanic colony in the world, according to zoo officials. "They are world-famous penguins," Anthony Brown, their primary keeper, told the Chronicle.

动物园管理处表示，这些雏鸟们将加入动物园原有44只企鹅的大家庭中，这是世界上最大的麦泽伦企鹅饲养群体。“他们是世人皆知的名企鹅，”原保育员安东尼·布朗在接受采访时称。