Philly's Adventure Aquarium to get revamp, including more penguins

September 20, 2012|
By Edward Colimore, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Outside the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, visitors marveled at penguins waddling over the ground, then quietly slipping into the water. Nearby, seals glided effortlessly through another tank, surfacing to eat fish offered by trainers.

The typical routines - regularly seen by crowds at the exhibits - will give way to major changes over the next few years as the Camden waterfront attraction undergoes the most expensive renovation since its privatization in 2005.

Preliminary plans call for an expansive new penguin exhibit that will cost millions of dollars and double the size of the current Penguin Island, officials said. The move is expected to let the aquarium increase its penguin population from 19 to more than 30.

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