Plan Toys’ Wooden Penguin Recalled

This is ust a friendly neighborhood consumer warning for a penguin-related product that I happened upon this morning. Even though this toy is adorably cute, please take care and heed the warnings that the US CPSC is giving below.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Plan Toys, Inc., has announced a voluntary recall [...]

Return to Penguin City

Tonight I watched Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom entitled, “Return to Penguin City.” In this episode they talked of the scientists’ research of the Adelies’ annual migration to their breeding grounds, the incubation of the eggs, the raising of the chicks, and their lives in their colonies on the Antarctic peninsula. It was a very [...]

Taronga Zoo’s Fiordland Cresteds on a Walkabout

A Fiordland penguin named Munro made headlines last year after making a long 1,240 mile trip from his natural habitat of southern New Zealand to Australia. Nowadays, Munro and his two female companions, Chalky and Milford, are taking strolls about the Taronga Zoo. Zoo visitors can’t help but keep watch of the penguins as they [...]

5 New Blackfooted Penguin Chicks at Pueblo Zoo

The Pueblo Zoo’s African penguin population has been steadily growing–five penguin babies were born over the winter. They’ll soon be on display.
At birth an baby African penguin is only about the size of a golf ball. Now they weigh close to five pounds.
The chicks were recently separated from their parents to make sure [...]

Little Blue on Bruny Neck, Tasmania

Credit: David Walsh
An excellent nighttime photograph of a little blue taken on Bruny Neck, Tasmania. David Walsh says that this photo was taken “with a 70-200mm 2.8 IS L-series lens, with a red covering over a torch so as not to confused the penguins.” Indeed. Orange-red light is much more gentler on the penguins’ eyes [...]

2 New Penguins at Omaha Zoo

There are a couple of new birds on ice at Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo. A king penguin [Madiba] and a macaroni penguin [Mac] recently arrived from a rescue group in South Africa. When the two birds were found, zoo officials said, they were severely dehydrated and have since been nursed back to health. There are [...]

St Louis penguins playing in the snow

These penguins had never known snow. Never seen it, certainly never slid their fat bowling-pin bodies down a bank of cool white. These were zoo penguins, born and bred. Their world was perpetually cool, but always indoors.
So keepers at the St. Louis Zoo were a little unsure how their penguins would react to seeing snow [...]