Loveland Living Planet Aquarium in Draper is celebrating Thanksgiving this year with four new gentoo penguin chicks.

“Every year, around February, the penguins go into nesting season,” said Rebecca Westover, curator of mammals at the aquarium. “We usually let them sit on the nests with their parents until they’re big enough to kind of wander around, and then we’ll bring them in the back. They’ll get to learn how to eat from us. And then we just keep them back there until they’re full-grown, and then they go back on exhibit.”

The four new chicks — two male and two female — are named Bodie, Stanley, Lumi and Isla. The naming process took several months and was only recently finalized after the chicks were mature enough to undergo blood testing to determine their gender.

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