Penguin Parade at Edinburgh Zoo

Daily penguin parade at Edinburgh zoo featuring Gentoo and King penguins.
[via PenguinsLand]

Wiring penguins to keep watch on the food chain

As two major infrastructure projects get underway, the Phillip Island Nature Park is using satellite tracking devices to monitor its penguin colony for any adverse effects the projects will have on the ecosystem and the local food chain. The devices will be attached to seven Little Blues for one foraging trip and then taken off [...]

Oil-stained penguins wash up on Uraguayan coast

The dead bodies of some 100 oil-stained penguins washed up on Uruguay’s southern coast, and the South American country’s naval authorities were investigating their deaths Monday. The animals are Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus Magellanicus), some 70 centimetres tall and weighing about 5 kilogrammes, the authorities said. In the South American winter, these animals, which cannot fly, [...]