#Job offers chance to live with penguins in Antarctica

#Job offers chance to live with penguins in Antarctica

“Job offers chance to live with penguins in Antarctica” GOUDIER ISLAND, Antarctica — Do you like to live a basic, sustainable life and dream of waking up and counting penguins in Antarctica? Maybe you want to watch seals and whales stay busy with daily life or witness a sunrise over the snowcapped mountains. The UK…

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#Penguin wanders 1900 miles from Antarctica to New Zealand

#Penguin wanders 1900 miles from Antarctica to New Zealand

“#Penguin wanders 1900 miles from Antarctica to New Zealand” A rare penguin wandered nearly 2,000 miles from Antarctica to New Zealand, according to a report. Named “Pingu” by charmed locals, he’s just the third Adélie penguin ever found on New Zealand, the BBC reported. The breed lives only on the Antarctic peninsula — at least…

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#Penguins missing visitors at locked-down Thai Zoo: Keepers

#Penguins missing visitors at locked-down Thai Zoo: Keepers

“#Penguins missing visitors at locked-down Thai Zoo: Keepers” CHONBURI, Thailand, Aug 5 – The flip flop sound of penguin feet rang out at an empty zoo in Thailand on Thursday as a parade of birds waddled out of their enclosure for their daily splash in a pool to keep them healthy during a COVID-19 lockdown. Thailand is fighting its…

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#Heroic penguin escapes killer whales in nail-biting video

#Heroic penguin escapes killer whales in nail-biting video

“#Heroic penguin escapes killer whales in nail-biting video” Penguin: 1. Killer whale: 0. Matt Karsten, 40, and his wife Anna, 32, have captured harrowing footage of a gentoo penguin narrowly escaping the jaws of a few hungry killer whales in the Antarctic. The Karstens were whale watching aboard a dinghy in the Gerlache Strait, near…

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#Photographer nabs shot of ‘never-before-seen’ yellow penguin

#Photographer nabs shot of ‘never-before-seen’ yellow penguin

“#Photographer nabs shot of ‘never-before-seen’ yellow penguin” He waddled right into the spotlight. A “never-before-seen” yellow penguin was captured on camera by a Belgian wildlife photographer, making nature lovers squawk with joy. Yves Adams was snapping photos of a colony of 120,000 king penguins in South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic, in December 2019…

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#Prize goes to photo of embracing penguins

#Prize goes to photo of embracing penguins

“#Prize goes to photo of embracing penguins” We could all use a hug like this in 2020. A touching image of two widowed penguins embracing as they gaze at the night sky in Australia won a coveted nature photography award — and plenty of praise from fans starved of affection amid the coronavirus pandemic. “During…

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#Scientists plan mission to iceberg drifting toward island

#Scientists plan mission to iceberg drifting toward island

“#Scientists plan mission to iceberg drifting toward island” A team of scientists is being sent to study the world’s biggest iceberg, which is potentially on a collision course with an island in the South Atlantic Ocean, according to reports. The “A68a” iceberg – which NASA estimates to be roughly the size of Delaware – broke from the Larsen C Ice…

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#These gay penguins can’t stop stealing other birds’ eggs

#These gay penguins can’t stop stealing other birds’ eggs

“#These gay penguins can’t stop stealing other birds’ eggs” Kidnappy feet. Fresh off their botched theft of a heterosexual penguin couple’s eggs, opportunistic gay penguins in the Netherlands have now turned to snatching the potential offspring of lesbian birds. This time, the expectant fathers — who reside at Amersfoort’s DierenPark — made off with the…

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