Endangered South African Penguins Find Safety at California Academy of Sciences

October 8, 2010 - 15:40
Photos by Jaymi Heimbuch

The South African penguin is a much less well known species than the penguins adapted to cold climates like those of March of the Penguins status, the Emperor penguins. But for a rather unfortunate reasons, they're hopefully about to get much more well known. The South African penguin species is now on the endangered species list. Their numbers have dipped down to just 52,000 left in the wild, and [...]

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