Here’s a penguin site I haven’t seen before, and it’s packed full of fantastic information specific to the penguins in New Zealand.
You can learn about the penguin species specific to the area including pictures and habitate info as well as maps of their nesting grounds. You can also learn about conservation of penguins, games webcams and a whole slew of useful information and penguin resources.
This site has soe wonderful photos you don’t want to miss!
CapeNature Dyer Island, in South Africa has had 35 baby penguins recently rescued to help reduce a rapid decline in the penguin population. Often times, at the end of the breeding season, the adults will abandon their chicks. The adults go off to molt, which prevents them from fishing and feeding their young.
Usually the CapeNature staff with let nature take its course, however large decrease in the penguin population has caused reason for concern and the need to intervene.
The young penguins have been moved to “the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Sanccob), where they are to be hand-reared for three months and then released back into the wild.” says the IOL
Through various partnerships, the penguins have also received artificial penguin burrows to help protect the young from predators. The CapeNature website has a wonderful article about this story along with further information, inquiries and ways to assist in the efforts.
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 hear what you think!
Penguin Academy is a new creation, a fun penguin themed play site provided by Living Coasts in the UK. You have to sign up for a free account, where you can pick a penguin type and name for your profile. The front page is apparently flash or something and doesn’t load for me. Ignore that if you have the same problem, and just sign up for the free account so you can play the games. My penguin is a macaroni named “doodle”.
There are a number of games you can play, but you can only choose to play the one game until you play so many times and more games will then be “unlocked”. I wish they would let you at least see what the other games are so you know if you want to keep playing or not.
I played two rounds of the first game, Fish feast. It was pretty neat, a more realistic cartoon version of a penguin that swims around and “eats” the fish. Unfortunately, the system wasn’t working correctly, so it didn’t save my score either time.
Try it out for yourself, you might really like it. I think it has potentially, but needs a few of the kinks worked out to really be a fun place for us penguin folk to hang out.
If you check it out, please come back and tell me what you think!
November 17th, 2008 by 
The Penguin Girl
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