ST. LOUIS - Getting older can be a burden. Just ask Enrique, an elderly penguin at the St. Louis Zoo who’s getting some relief from his arthritis after getting custom-designed boots.
According to zookeepers the southern rockhopper penguin has lived beyond his life expectancy and needed therapeutic shoes. Staff members said Enrique, who came to the zoo in 2016, is estimated to be more than 30 years old.
The life expectancy for his species in the wild is about 10 years.Since then, the penguin developed arthritis in his feet and started to get around slowly over the past year.RELATED: Champ, the Biden's older German Shepherd, dies at the White House"Like many zoo animals, Enrique is far older than would be expected if he were to live in the.