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i'm laurie macha curator of mammals and birds at mystic aquarium
well my favorite penguin right now is purple red she's one of our chicks and
she is a full sibling of one of our original birds
what is the most common question
surprisingly enough is are they birds
and yes they are birds they have feathers they lay eggs but they just
don't fly
there have been several different names for african penguins
right now the name that is most commonly seen is african penguins they've also been known
as the black-footed penguins
and of course because of their donkey be like sound they're also known as the ***
penguin
one fact that most people don't know that i find interesting is that most of the
penguin species do not like snow cold and ice
most of them are temperate zone and prefer warmer weather
how can we tell between males and females well it's really not easy to do
visually you can't see a difference so what we do
is we take a blood sample and we send it off for d_n_a_ testing and that's how we
learn the sexes or if a female lays an egg
do the penguins know how good they have it here i'd like to believe so but i
don't know they really don't have anything to worry about they have
veterinarians seven days a week their hand fed they don't have to hunt
their food and they have the best medical plan that anyone could ever have