Imperiled penguin gets a break: Cal Academy performs innovative surgery on injured chick

by Tony Hicks, Bay City News October 15, 2024October 14, 2024

California Academy of Science, Steinhart Aquarium staff members, biologist Emma Kocina (left) and veterinarian Dr. Lana Krol attend to Iggie, an endangered African penguin chick, on April 19, 2024, in San Francisco. Iggie underwent the first-ever successful surgical procedure to repair a slipped ankle tendon — a condition that once would have led to amputation or death. (Gayle Laird/California Academy of Sciences via Bay City News)

A SLIPPED ANKLE tendon sounds like something attributed to a hulking NFL star on a team injury report.

But for a small penguin, such an injury used to mean amputation or even death.

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