Monthly Archives: March 2008

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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