The penguin 

A PREMATURE penguin has been saved by zookeepers.

The Humboldt – nicknamed Rainbow – was discovered in a cracked egg shell and taken to the London Zoo vet.

Penguin keeper Suzi Hyde said: “The chick had a little way to go before she should have hatched, so it was very much touch and go. But we knew we had to get her safely out of the shell and into an incubator to give her a fighting chance.

“We were overjoyed when she started begging for food by opening her mouth wide and making tiny squawks. “It was the first sign that she might just make it.”

Rainbow warmed up under the glow of a heat lamp while eating blended fish. The one-month-old chick is expected to stay in the incubation room until she reaches 10 weeks old.