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At Edinburgh Zoo, children from a nearby hospital painted over one thousand pebbles for the Gentoo penguins breeding season. The colorful stones, featuring designs like flowers, superheroes, and soccer logos, were tumbled into the penguins habitat, drawing a crowd of over one hundred excited birds. The project, which started with just fifty-four pebbles in 2022, has since grown to one thousand twenty, with some outpatients timing visits just to join in. The kids get a real emotional lift watching live streams as penguins waddle over, squabble, and select stones to build nests and court partners. Breeding ramps up soon, with eggs laid in April and hatching by May, when hospital kids will name the chicks. Same-sex pairs even get surrogate eggs, ensuring more success, and young ones will join the pebble hunt in a few years.

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