A rare chick has been hatched and raised by a same-sex penguin couple at Chester Zoo. The Humboldt chick is one of 10 to have hatched at the zoo, in what it described as a "bumper year for penguins". Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male penguins, "stepped in to help raise one of two eggs laid by another penguin pair, Wotsit and Peach", the zoo said.

Dynamic duo Scampi and Flounder (we told you, great names abound in this colony) were signed up for fatherhood after another couple, Wotsit and Peach (*chef’s kiss*), laid two eggs. In order to give the tiny penguins inside all the care they needed to get the best start in life, one egg was given to the same-sex couple.

Chester Zoo has been celebrating a bumper year for penguins after ten rare chicks hatched at the zoo. The rare new arrivals are highly threatened Humboldt penguins, one of the most at risk out of the world’s 17 species of penguin, and began hatching from their eggs between April 16 and 28.