From the category archives:

Penguin Places

Penguins swimming at the New England Aquarium

This is a great video of the penguins at the New England Aquarium. The water really is that bright! (you might want to turn the computer volume down a bit, this one is loud with background noise.)

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Three New Penguins in South Carolina

photo from WLTX.com
Zoo19: Three New Penguins!
WLTX.com
Columbia (WLTX) — Riverbanks Zoo has one tiny and two big additions to the Penguin Coast exhibit. A rockhopper chick, born on June 18 and two adult king

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Going to see some penguins

Penguin Photo by Kevin SanJuanIslands on Flickr

Next weekend I am going on a little family trip – there’s a wedding to go see and celebrate. But I’ve also taken the opportunity to squeeze in some penguin fun. One week from tomorrow I will (hopefully) be visiting the new penguin exhibit at the Woodland park zoo in Seattle, Washington. Then the next [...]

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Baby Penguins at the Tennessee Aquarium

photo credit: Tennessee Aquarium

The Tennessee is swarming with baby penguins these days. Just within the last 24 hours the Gentoo penguin pair, Peep and Poncho have laid their second egg. I first discovered this story from my friend wiinterrr over at Gentoo Penguins at O’Higgins Station blog. She posted the “Tennessee Aquarium expecting more penguins“, I read further [...]

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Name the baby penguin contest

photo from the Audubon Institute

The Audubon Institute in New Orleans is holding a contest to name their penguin chick that hatched on Februrary 9th, 2009. The contest is only open to members, but you are welcome to purchase a membership if you’d like to submit a penguin name. If you aren’t familiar with the Audubon Institute, their penguin pages [...]

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Meet the Penguins in Syracuse

penguin photo from WYSR channel 9 in Syracuse

I read a news story this morning about a Humboldt chick hatched at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo… So cute, I just want to give it a tiny little hug! This zoo is another location I hadn’t heard of yet. So I jumped over to their website and found a fabulous family of penguins. Looks to [...]

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Penguins at the London Zoo

Penguins at the London Zoo

The penguin page on the London Zoo website has a great video about the penguins living in their habitat.

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Meet the penguins at the Columbus Zoo

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The penguins at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio must be spoiled rotten! This is, by far, one of the best websites I’ve seen so far when it comes to really engaging site visitors. I can only imagine what it’s like to visit the penguins in person when they are treated so fabulously online! Check out [...]

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Coming soon, Penguins at the Woodland Park Zoo

I am so excited! According to the Seattle Times, a new penguin exhibit is due to open May, 2009 at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Washington. Hooray! I say. Seattle is one of my absolute favorite places to visit and now It definitely will be at the top of my list. The exhibit will [...]

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Penguins Rock – the video

A fun penguin video from the Tennessee Aquarium. I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before, I love this aquarium! I haven’t had the chance to visit in a number of years, but it’s definitely on my list to make it back to see this fantastic penguin exhibit. If you’ve been by, holler back, I’d love to [...]

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Penguin Parade at Phillip Island

Phillip Island Nature Parks is an island adventure about 90 minutes from Melbourne in Australia. Each night at sunset, the Little Penguins, the smallest of the penguins, emerge from the sea and waddle ashore to their sand dune burrows. This “attraction” is the winner of the Victorian Tourism Awards for Ecotourism. Read more about the [...]

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Baby Penguin introduced today at the LPZ

I just read that today at the Lincoln Park Zoo, in Chicago, a rockhopper penguin chick made its debut. Can you say, Aweeeeeeeee! Photo by Greg Neise, Lincoln Park Zoo Now the Penguin House at LPZ is a must on my list, it looks like a fabulous locale… if only I had my own jet! [...]

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Penguin Diner

Have you ever been to Penguin Diner? I just read about it. If I lived closer, I’d waddle on over right now, it looks so scrumptious! Penguin Diner is a located in Bethany Beach, Delaware and (according to this penguin article by The Daily Times) their most popular item is the French Toast – Ohhhh [...]

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Go on a penguin Safari

Looking for a new vacation idea? Or maybe you love penguins so much you’d like to watch them all day.. out in the wild? Well look no further! Check out the Snow Hill Island Safari on the ice breaker Kapitan Khlebnikov. This antarctica journey includes a 14 day, 13 night adventure full of penguin fun. [...]

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Have you seen a penguin with a giraffe?

I just did. Every time I have seen penguins, they are by themselves and usually in some kind of a bird only exhibit or even all alone in their own exhibit. I went to Omaha last month and saw the Black-footed penguins living in the same exhibit as the giraffes. It was amazing and weird [...]

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Penguins at the St. Louis Zoo

I visited the penguins at the St. Louis zoo this past week, and it was fantastic! The penguin exhibit is named “Penguin and Puffin Coast” I have a ton of photos and some neat video to share with you… but to start off with I’d like to show you the cool penguin art. There is [...]

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