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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Abby West

MYSTERIOUS: Rare maccoa ducklings hatch at chester zoo for first time - What They Never Told You

Maccoa ducklings
The ducklings are in Chester zoo’s Heart of Africa zone. Photograph: Chester zoo/SWNS

Chester zoo has successfully hatched one of Africa’s rarest species of duck for the first time.

It said the successful breeding of four maccoa ducklings formed part of growing efforts to safeguard Africa’s most threatened species.

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