Meet Pingu and its BFF, a stuffed penguin. (No one knows yet if Pingu is a she or a he.) This baby had to be separated from its siblings because they kept eating all of its fish and it was getting runty. They removed the three-week-old Pingu, but then it got lonely!
This technically falls under the sad 'n' cute category. Environmental disasters decimate animal populations, and oil spills are particularly horrible. These folks from IFAW (The International Fund for Animal Welfare), who rehabilitated penguin victims of an oil spill, got to release them back into the ocean.
Although geeksugar got a sneak peek at the California Academy of Sciences
when she attended a video game release party earlier this month, she didn't really get to explore the facility as much as she would have liked to. Thankfully,
Wired gave us a behind the scenes look at the high tech penguin habitat, and explained the benefits of running the facility on computers to replicate the light and temperature the penguins would get back in their natural environment.
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I'm excited for the new
Academy of Sciences to open this weekend, so I can check out what other animals are hiding behind those closed doors!
Extremely satisfied is my guess.
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Yes, it's a penguin, but which one (refresh your memory with
my species slideshow)?
I looooove webcams, and I've got some time to kill before the
Fourth of July fun gets started. If you're also sitting around waiting for the food to be grilled, now's a great time to check out some live zoo action. To be fair, I've included a variety of creatures as well as three cams with baby animals .
Great job captioning this silly photo! You made it quotable with these clever ideas:
Um, yes, I'll have the herring with the kelp and krill sides. –
smistasan
No sir, I did not sign for the package.
It’s time to get clever!
A picture is worth a thousand words but those messages vary from person to person. I think this picture is laughable, but what do you think of it?
That's right – it's
another holiday today! In honor of
World Penguin Day, I've created a slideshow to teach you a little more about the 17 species of penguins worldwide. Many times, looking at their heads is the easiest way to tell them apart .
Penguins are accustomed to cool waters with their thick layer of blubber and water-resistant feathers keeping them warm. But for Pierre, a 25-year-old African Penguin at the California Academy of Sciences, his feathers weren't holding up to their end of the bargain. For a strange and unknown reason,
his protective layer of slick feathers began falling off, causing him to avoid the water and shiver on the sidelines while his pool mates played.
