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The Como Zoo in St. Paul welcomed a new addition on July 31 — a sweet baby muffin of a puffin. 

The zoo has exhibited puffins since 1987, but this is the first time a puffin chick has hatched at Como, 

Born to first-time parents Bug and Rocky, the chick doesn’t have a name yet and will be kept from public view for its first 5 to 6 weeks of life — burrowing like it would in the wild. Zookeepers didn’t know the bird’s sex as of this week. 

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