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Ever knew that homosexuality behaviour does exist in animals? Here's a short abstract from youtube of related news as reported in CNN : ''PENGUIN PORN'' In fact, this is not just unique to the penguins in the zoo of Germany. A similar occurance was reported in The New York Times(February 2004) that two chinstrap penguins became a pair of ...

    Granite Island has been specially designed to make it easier for the penguins to breed. They have ready-made burrows and taken special precaution to make the island penguin-safe. The penguin population is dwindling (ironically due to tourism) and they are trying to revive it. On a recent trip to Granite Island, Australia, we ...

Imagine you are in a huge parade with 50 000 other people, how are you going to locate your father in this sea of people? Well, this seems to be an easy task for a baby penguin. During winter, baby penguins group together while the parents go off to search for food. After the father penguin returns with his feed for the young, he has to locate ...

            It is a well-known fact that penguins, or at least most of them, practise monogamy. The most faithful of them all might well be the Adelie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae). Read more             After spending a year apart ...