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Same-sex penguin couple hatch rare chick at zoo
A rare chick has been hatched and raised by a same-sex penguin couple at Chester Zoo. The Humboldt chick is one of 10 to have hatched at the zoo, in what it described as a "bumper year for penguins". Scampi and Flounder, a pair of male penguins, "stepped in to help raise one of two eggs laid by another penguin pair, Wotsit and Peach", the zoo said.
Video shows a wayward penguin swimming and diving among beachgoers along Brazil’s most iconic shoreline. It might be ...
Penguin trainer Nick Vitale unlocks a door to a small cinderblock room. It's chilly, with buzzing fluorescent lights and a roaring ventilation fan. Also, it smells like fish. The perfect penguin ...
You’d think that penguins would love the meaty taste of fish, but it turns out that they may not be able to taste their food much at all. A new genetic study out of the University of Michigan ...
Pesto the baby penguin is huge — both online and literally speaking. The nine-month-old king penguin, who lives at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia, weighs about 46 pounds. That’s ...
When she moves the fish closer to its beak, the penguin turns away haughtily. An otter sniffs the fish, then runs away. For the penguins and otters at Japan’s Hakone-en Aquarium, ...
The geriatric penguins, who are mostly in their 30s, receive close monitoring for ailments such as cataracts and arthritis. They are fed fish that have been injected with extra water to promote ...
Penguins mostly eat fish, squid, crab and krill. However, some species of penguins' diets vary to avoid competition for food among each other. For instance, smaller penguins consume krill and ...
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