Two new animals are making a splash at Shedd Aquarium. Pico and Douglas are rockhopper penguins that hatched at Shedd ...
Shedd Aquarium has named its two newest rockhopper penguins, Pico and Douglas, nods to their South American roots and the Falkland Islands’ penguin population, respectively.
After hatching in June, the Shedd Aquarium's youngest rockhoppers have officially been named after hatching over the summer.
It's hoped the study will help determine why Rockhopper numbers on New Zealand's Campbell Island have plummeted. Two species of sub-Antarctic penguin have surprised scientists in New Zealand by ...
Soon after, the African penguin was listed as endangered and the New Zealand-Australia populations of the southern rockhopper penguin were listed as threatened. After another Center petition, in 2014 ...
Brown smiled as she walked among the bevy of birds, which include five species - Southern rockhopper, Macaroni, King, Gentoo and Chinstrap - several of whom periodically fill the air with high-pitched ...
You might think the answer to ‘how many species of penguins are there’ would be simple… but its not. In fact, you may well have just stumbled into the most contentious issue in the world of ...
from the impressive 1.2m tall Emperor Penguins of the British Antarctic Territory to the smaller, agile Southern Rockhopper Penguins of the Falkland Islands – nine out of 18 penguin species ...
In Adelie Land, Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru, a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life's questions for the price of a pebble. Together with Lovelace and ...
Brown had previously cared for this Rockhopper pair when she was a penguin keeper at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago for most of the prior decade before taking a break to be a stay-at-home mom.