Male gentoo penguins Sphen and Magic built a nest of ... after being given live eggs from other penguin couples to incubate. Sphen and Magic were adopted as gay icons in Australia and abroad ...

“This is completely new behavior, not just for gentoo penguins but for penguins in general,” said Handley, whose article was published in “Polar Biology” There are 130.000 breeding pairs ...

Sitting on their nests, gentoo penguins protect their eggs and chicks in their rocky rookery nest colony on Aitcho Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Gentoo penguins preen walk Danco ...

Standing up to 30 inches tall with a distinctive orange-red bill and white eye patches, these charismatic waddlers are the third-largest penguin species in Antarctica. Gentoo Penguins are distinctive ...

Emperor penguin parents battle the extreme polar south to protect their fluffy babies, and gentoo penguins scour ... was then measured by the number of eggs per breeding pair, and then how many ...

The penguins are kept in an enclosure with up to 7ft of water depth in which to dive. Campaigners argue this is especially shocking because gentoo penguins can dive up to 600ft in the wild.

Penguins are a group of aquatic flightless birds. They live almost exclusively in the Southern Hemisphere, with only one species, the Galápagos penguin, found north of the equator. Highly adapted for ...

Born Free joins Freedom for Animals in calling for the removal of 15 gentoo penguins currently housed belowground at Sea Life, London. Born Free is calling for the release of 15 gentoo penguins ...

If it is not, the penguins are given an artificial egg, while the one they laid is ... The year prior, there were four new arrivals - a Gentoo, King, and two Macaronis. In the wild, a 20-year ...