Posts tagged "penguin"

Ear Implants; Lamb Lady

by Evan Jacobs (Subscribe to Evan Jacobs's posts): Jan 8th 2010 6:00PM Filed Under: Chew on This

Rounding up our favorite animal stories, photos, and videos on the web each week!

Phew, Chihuahua

15 chihuahuas get pardoned from certain death to come to the Big Apple, and man, are they shivering. [via AP]
Mice Own Droids

Can't you sit down with us to have a nice meal of cheese without checking that thing a million times? [via Arstechnica]
Bisexu-ill Penguin

Most penguins choose a mate for life. Not Harry. But now that he's sick, which of his lovers gets visitation rights? [via People Pets]
Yip/Bark

Ear implants for dogs? What's next, testicle implants for neutered dogs? Ha! Wait, they have those too? [via morningsun.net]
Future Gyro Stand

This Aussie lady is on the lamb. Get it? Sorry, it's hard to make lamb puns. Oh yeah, she owns 27 of them. [via heraldsun.com.au]

Chew On This: New Year's Edition

by Evan Jacobs (Subscribe to Evan Jacobs's posts): Jan 1st 2010 5:00PM Filed Under: Exotic Pets, Celebrity Pets, Chew on This

Rounding up our favorite animal stories, photos, and videos on the Web each week!

New Year's Barkin' Eve

These pets are ready to party! Look through these photos to find pictures of animals as ready for 2010 as they are totally wasted. [via People Pets]
Rescue, Ubu, Rescue!

A dog saves his owners life by--you guessed it--scratching at the door. Yawn. In 2010, someone needs to teach a dog to use a defibrillator. [via MyFoxWausau.com]
Manners, Mischa

When Mischa Barton was denied access to Whole Foods for her dog, for once, a celebrity was treated like a normal person. [via NY Daily News]
Gorilla Birthday Miracle

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Colo, the oldest gorilla in captivity. Happy birthday to you. Oh, and happy new year.[via LATimes.com]
Oh, Holy Penguin

For the first time in five years, a king penguin is born at Edinburgh Zoo. Failure to impregnate king penguins is so 2009! [via TimesOnline.co.uk]

The Penguin and the Zoo-Keeper: A Love Story

by Rebecca Quimby (Subscribe to Rebecca Quimby's posts): Nov 6th 2009 5:00PM Filed Under: Pets News

A penguin at the Allwetterzoo Münster. Flickr/Mojo Jojo

It's just another love story. Girl meets boy, girl loves boy, girl leaves boy, girl loves boy again. Except in the case of this particular story, the girl happens to be a penguin.

13 years ago, an African penguin arrived at the Allwetterzoo Münster, reports ABC News. While normally penguins will be aggressive toward their keepers, this one, Peter Vollbracht told Spiegel Online, ignored the 80 other penguins and "would just sit on my boot or arm and ask to be petted." Sandy, as he named her, apparently did not believe in playing hard to get: "When I would get to work in the morning, she would be there waiting for me and call out to me. And when we did our daily penguin march for exercise, she would always jump to the front of the line to be next to me." For ten years the couple had their special relationship, and Sandy became somewhat of a celebrity in Germany.

Then Vollbracht got sick and missed six weeks of work, reports ABC News. But "out of sight, out of mind" apparently applies to primarily monogamous penguins. When Vollbracht returned, Sandy had set her sights on Tom, a younger penguin. Sandy and Tom settled down, had a couple of chicks, and then, sadly, Tom died. The newly available Sandy looked around for a new mate and found... Vollbracht. While her keeper points out that she needs a penguin partner to lead a normal life, it seems that some things are just meant to be.

Bald Penguin Covers Up For Chicks

by Kirsten Taylor (Subscribe to Kirsten Taylor's posts): Aug 21st 2009 2:00PM Filed Under: Birds

Photo: Solent News & Photo Agency / REX USA

It's not easy being bald -- unless you're Ralph, a penguin who keeps his bare skin under wraps with a custom-fit wetsuit.

Every summer penguins molt, gradually shedding old feathers as a shiny new set comes in, People Pets reports. But for reasons unknown, Ralph's feathers all fall out at once, leaving him living in the buff at his Marwell Wildlife Center home in Winchester, England. Marwell animal information officer, Bill Hall, tells Paw Nation that the 10-year-old Humboldt penguin's skin is left unprotected and uninsulated, vulnerable to cold and sunburn. "It sounds silly that penguins could get a chill, but they may," he says.

Ralph has lived at Marwell for the last 3 years, and every year, he's dropped his feathers all at once. (Hall is trying to find out whether he did so at his last home in Germany, but hasn't been able to get to the bottom of it yet.) The past two years, zookeepers kept Ralph inside for a few weeks until his protective feathers grew in, but this year, that solution wouldn't do.

"This year he mated with a young lady called Coral," Hall told Paw Nation. "They have two chicks which they're rearing. We didn't want to remove Ralph from his parental responsibility."

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True Blood's Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer Play With Penguins

by Margaret Bristol (Subscribe to Margaret Bristol's posts): Jul 30th 2009 11:00AM Filed Under: Birds, Exotic Pets

"Birds of a feather flock together. Sometimes co-stars do too!" Photo: Bob Couey, SeaWorld/Getty Images

Look at these love birds! According to People magazine, "True Blood" co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer stepped away from the world of vampires and shape-shifters to explore their softer sides at Sea World in San Diego this past Sunday. The couple, who are romantically linked on and off screen, spent time cuddling with a feathered friend at the Penguin Encounter attraction.

Paquin, who plays Sookie Stackhouse, a telepathic waitress, and Moyer, who plays vampire Bill Compton, were in town for an appearance at Comic Con, a comic book and popular arts convention. The second season of "True Blood" is currently airing Sunday nights on HBO.

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When Penguins Get Divorced

by Eliot Glazer (Subscribe to Eliot Glazer's posts): Jul 17th 2009 11:00AM Filed Under: Birds, Pets News

This is the story of two male penguins who fell in love and raised a baby together, only to have the fairy tale end with sex, lies, and CNN videotape.

Harry and Pepper are two residents of the San Francisco Zoo's Penguin Island. While penguins tend to swing one way, these two didn't see gender when they fell in love. Their courtship became a newsworthy sensation last year, especially after the zoo's staff donated a penguin egg for the couple to raise as their own.

As with many love stories, this one goes south when another woman came between the two. Recent widower and next door neighbor, Linda, caught the attention of Harry, who soon moved in with her and became a father for the second time around. Where is Jerry Springer when you need him?

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