The Pigeon Express
The oldest penguin in Edinburgh zoo has been killed after a fox broke into its enclosure, staff have announced. Mrs Wolowitz, 35, a northern rockhopper with a “massive personality”, was attacked late on Wednesday. Other penguins in the enclosure were not hurt and were doing well, the zoo added. The zoo in a tweet said: […]
A pair of male Humboldt penguins at a New York zoo have teamed up to become foster parents to a new hatchling. The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse says the same-sex foster couple, Elmer and Lima, are a first for the zoo, although several other institutions have seen success with same-sex penguins tending eggs together […]
For more than three decades, a penguin named Mochica charmed visitors and served as an ambassador for his threatened species at the Oregon Zoo. The flightless bird was described as the “elder statesman” of his colony. He personally greeted thousands of guests in his lifetime and was said to prefer the company of humans. But […]
A video of penguin escaping the jaws of a killer whale is going viral on the internet. The nail-biting video was recorded by a tourist aboard a dinghy in the Gerlache Strait, near the tip of Antarctica. The video shows the penguin pacing near their vehicle as killer whales chased it. Just as the on-lookers […]
A penguin waddling through a village was rounded up by police officers in Broxtowe, Nottinghamshire. Officers were on a routine patrol when they spotted the Humboldt penguin in a village street in the early hours of Sunday. The bird, nicknamed Po-Po, had escaped from a farm enclosure in Strelley and then managed to waddle a […]