{"id":413308,"date":"2026-02-07T18:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413308\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:15:07","slug":"henry-is-worlds-smallest-penguins-latest-arrival-in-weymouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/413308\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry is world’s smallest penguin’s latest arrival in Weymouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also known as little blue penguins, little fairy penguins are blue-grey in colour and are native to New Zealand and Australia<\/p>\n

Henry was the second of two eggs laid by proud parents Tyrion and Dandy, who are in their first breeding season as a couple. <\/p>\n

The Sea Life Centre said the hatching was “a significant milestone” in its breeding programme.<\/p>\n

It said Henry required “some gentle assistance” from the centre’s animal care team after struggling to break free from his shell.<\/p>\n

Henry has taken to solid food immediately after his first feed, a positive sign that required no transition period with liquidised meals.<\/p>\n

Henry brings the total number of little penguins at Weymouth to 42.<\/p>\n

The colony was established in 2018 when 25 of the animals were moved from Australia<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The facility was the first in Europe to successfully breed the species.<\/p>\n

Webster said: “Watching him break free from his shell, with a little helping hand from our animal care experts, was an incredibly special moment.<\/p>\n

“Henry’s successful hatching is a wonderful testament to six years of dedicated breeding work here at Sea Life Weymouth.<\/p>\n

“As Europe’s only little penguin colony, every new arrival is significant.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Also known as little blue penguins, little fairy penguins are blue-grey in colour and are native to New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-413308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}