Posted: 10:20 pm EDT May 21, 2009Updated: 10:38 pm EDT May 21, 2009
PITTSBURGH -- There are some new penguins in town.
The National Aviary welcomed six African penguins to its new Penguin Point exhibit on Thursday.
The new penguins were found on the West Coast of Africa and now need a name.
Friday night, the Aviary will auction off the rights to name the new guys.
The five older penguins are named Stanley, Simon, Sidney, Elvis and Patrick.
The new Penguin Point exhibit will allow visitors to have an up-close, 360-degree view of penguins swimming, playing, nesting and scaling rocks in an open-air space.
It officially opens on Saturday.
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http://www.wpxi.com/news/19533420/detail.html
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Reporter: Suzanne Hobbs
What's Waiting for You at The Tautphaus Park Zoo- Plenty!
The Tautphaus Park Zoo is ready for this Memorial Day weekend. It's the kick-off to a summer of "unbearable" fun. Not only are the Asian sloth bears a week away from their debut, a new zoo friend was introduced Thursday.
Zoo Superintendent Bill Gersonde says the Tautphaus Park Zoo has a three fold mission to educate, promote conservation as well as just help everyone have a good time.
Already this year, Gersonde says the number of zoo visitors is up from this time last year as more people discover what this impressive little zoo has to offer.
And there's a new friend at the zoo. Percy the Penguin is the zoo's first mascot in it's 74 year history. In Percy's first minutes of greeting children and adults, it's clear, this new zoo animal is a huge hit.
Bill Gersonde: "A mascot character of an animal is another way for us to reach people with our important conservation message. If they like Percy, if they like feeding the pelicans or feeding the goats it develops and opportunity, allows for an opportunity for us to get our educational conservation message across."
Percy the Penguin can be found on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays at 2:30 p.m. at Penguin Cove.
The zoo's fun and informative Animal Encounters show also begins this Saturday and runs twice daily through Labor Day.
The schedule for the zoo is Tuesday through Sunday 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Mondays it has extended hours 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
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