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18 June 2009
Macaroni penguin is born before Father's Day
The first penguin chick, a macaroni, has hatched at Tennessee Aquarium's Penguins' Rock. Keepers plan to let parents Paulie and Chaos raise the chick as long as they continue to be diligent parents.
Read Tennessee Aquarium press release
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17 June 2009
Police metal detectors aid penguin health check
(Taiwan)
This month for its annual penguin health check, Taiwan's National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium decided to use a police metal detector, rather than costly X-ray technology, to determine whether the penguins had swallowed any metal objects. The Hengchun police came to the museum and, with the assistance of museum staff, did their first ever “body search” on penguins!
Read Taiwan Today article

16 June 2009
Cleaned up penguins back on island
(Namibia)
The first batch of oiled African penguins released in Cape Town in May have returned to Mercury Island off the coast of Namibia, where they appear to be doing well. The Namibian birds were transported to Cape Town and cleaned and rehabilitated by the Southern African Foundation for Coastal Birds (SANCCOB). The first to arrive home was a fiesty one nicknamed Black Angus.
Read the Cape Times article at iol.co.za
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12 June 2009
Zoo's little blues are singing a happier song now
(New Zealand)
Auckland Zoo's newest resident has taken a while to get his bearings, but it’s not because of a lack of hospitality. The little blue penguin was brought in with only one flipper after being rescued by a member of the public. He joins the zoo's other little blue, Coral, who has been alone since her five companions died in unrelated incidents over the last year.
Read Stuff.co.nz article
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5 June 2009
Antarctic success
(Antarctica)
The South African government has announced it will create a vast protected area around the remote Prince Edward Islands in the Southern Ocean – home to 450,000 king penguins, as well as rockhopper, macaroni and gentoo penguins. It will be one of the biggest Marine Protected Areas in the world, and WWF is taking a lead in providing technical and management advice.
Read WWF News article

3 June 2009
Male penguins raise adopted chick
(Germany)
Two male Humboldt penguins at a zoo in Bremerhaven have hatched a chick and are now rearing it as its adoptive parents. The zoo, in northern Germany, says the adult males – Z and Vielpunkt – were given an egg which was rejected by its biological parents and are now happily rearing it.
Read BBC News article

2 June 2009
Scientists map penguins from space
(Antarctica)
Penguin guano (poo) stains, visible from space, have helped scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) locate emperor penguin breeding colonies in Antarctica. In a new study, scientists describe how they used satellite images to survey the sea-ice around 90% of Antarctica’s coast to search for emperor penguin colonies.
Read BAS press release
Read related article at The Times Online

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