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Start your week off right with video of some pretty adorable penguins swimming. Click here for the video.
You can see the little blue penguins at the New England Aquarium right now! The others are at our temporary off-site holding facility during construction, so consider this your African and rockhopper penguin fix.
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What a webcast: We had an awesome Google+ Hangout on Air today with researchers in Antarctica today! Take a look, in case you missed it. They showed us around a bit, talked about changes in the local penguin populations over the last years and gave a great inside look into climate change research.
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Penguins in Antarctica: The stark red-orange bills of these gentoo penguins really pop against the rocky backdrop on Torgersen Island. This is just on of the penguin species photographed in today’s dispatch from Antarctica. See more penguin pictures.
African penguins at the New England Aquarium.
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Amazing. We can’t wait to see your pictures in the fall. Thanks for tagging us, waltzforagirl!
This is what happens when you give me a day and an aquarium. I’m planning on going back in the fall with a much nicer (and borrowed) camera and getting even better things, but for now all I have the the photos.
Teh pretties!
If you have Aquarium pictures to share, be sure to tag us at #new england aquarium!
Update: Hi everyone! If you saw this from the radar, please follow us for more images from the New England Aquarium and wild habitats around the world. You can learn more about each of these species on the Aquarium’s blogs.
Specifically:
Top left: giant green sea anemones
Top right: Sea urchins
Center, bottom left: Sea stars
Bottom center: Sea jellies
Bottom right: Juvenile African penguin
What are the penguins doing? (note: they weren’t doing anything…)
Sometimes the colony quiets down, but they definitely do all these things. There’s video of some of that here, here and here.
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Jo Blasi and Paul Leonard, both New England Aquarium staffers, spent weeks volunteering their time to study and rehabilitate African penguins in South Africa. Hear them talk about their experience, see more pictures like this and learn a little bit about this endangered species at a free lecture tomorrow.
Register here.
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Wait for it: SANCCOB and the New England Aquarium are both working to save penguins from extinction. Rocky the rockhopper approves!
Ever been interrupted by a nosey penguin?
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“These are worth fighting for!” – Jo Blasi, New England Aquarium Global Explorers Blog
Yes they are!
Taken shortly after one sprayed feces everywhere. My favorite is the one sitting under the rock. He was sitting like that until we left.
Little blue penguins (more about them)
The full grown penguin is totally leading the way!
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Give thanks! Jo helped release nine healthy penguins back into the wild. Learn about this heartwarming story on the Explorers Blog.
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They may look cute, but these wild penguins are not cuddly. Jo has the bruises to prove it. Learn about her day handling African penguins on the Explorers Blog.
