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At California zoo, a jilted penguin sulks when same-sex partner leaves him for a female

BY Rosemary Black
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, April 27th 2010, 1:14 PM

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Magellanic penguins may like hanging in groups, but they're also content with just one partner. 

 

A lovelorn penguin at the San Francisco Zoo is still searching for a partner - and showing signs of stress over his still-single status.

The Magellanic penguin, dubbed Pepper, got dumped during the last breeding season by his long-term, same-sex partner, according to San Francisco’s KGO-TV/DT.  The straying partner, Harry, found a female penguin by the name of Linda, and the pair now are incubating an egg together.

Pepper’s not letting his former sweetheart off lightly. There’s tension among the three aquatic birds, according to the zookeepers, who also are concerned that Pepper’s been isolating when he should be out making friends.

He’s got reason to be sulking. Pepper and Harry had been a couple since their teen years, and had even cared for an abandoned egg together.

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These two endangered penguin chicks were hatched last week at a zoo in Vienna, Austria, after their parents were fooled into thinking they were in the Antarctic.

The rockhopper penguins that have never been successfully bred in captivity anywhere else in Europe weigh just 90 grammes each according to staff at Vienna’s Schonbrunn Zoo.

By creating conditions simulating that of the penguins’ natural environment from artificial light through to temperature control the zoo has successfully managed to breed the endangered species.

Now the latest penguin chicks are settling in with zoo keepers feeding them fine herring filet puree four times a day.

Rockhopper penguins are native to islands off the coast of Antarctica. They get their name because they hop over rocks and crevices on the shores where they live.

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Magdalena Island (Spanish: Isla Magdalena) is a small island in the Strait of Magellan, Chile. It is located in Magallanes Region northeast of the regional capital Punta Arenas. The first sheep introduced to Patagonia came to the island from the Falkland Islands in the 1800s. In 1982 it was declared national monument as part of Los Pingüinos Natural Monument. The penguin colony on the island hosts over 60,000 breeding pairs of the Magellanic Penguin. The island is currently uninhabited.

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