19th February
By Matt Warner
HIDDEN cameras at Chester Zoo have captured remarkable footage showing the hatching of two rare hornbill chicks.
The rhinoceros hornbill chicks, which are both female, arrived to parents Manu and Liv after an incubation period of around 40 days and are the first to hatch at the zoo for more than 13 years. Chester is the only zoo in the UK to ever successfully breed the species.
The rarely seen film is at the heart of a new series of Channel 4’s The Secret Life of the Zoo.
Conservation experts say the arrival of chicks is made even more special given the remarkable survival story of their parents who were rescued from a fire at the zoo in Dec 2018. The pair was safely led away from the fire by dedicated members of the zoo’s bird team and, within hours, they had been re-homed in another area of the 128 acre site.
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