Source: National Geographic
Description: It tells about how Emperor penguins survive at extreme low temperature.
Source: 都市日報
Date: 6 June 2004
Description: It tells about penguins' habitat in Australia and how to protect them.
Date: 7 July 2004
Description: Bristol Zoo Gardens will be starting its latest fund-raising campaign with a special event. The Penguins After Dark evening on Friday is being held to raise money and awareness for penguins in South Africa.Visitors can revel in the energetic sounds of Doreen Doreen, supported by the melodic beats of the Rhythm Project, with circus workshops, penguin stories, and other penguin antics.
Date: 30 July 2004
Description: Just hours after the sinking of the MV Treasure off the coast of South Africa, a massive oil slick engulfed the beaches and fishing grounds of the "Jack-Ass" or African Penguin, leaving more than 19,000 penguins covered in oil. Thereafter a three-month rescue effort was conducted off the coast, with 12,000 local volunteers helping to remove and clean the stricken birds.
Title: Homosexual Activity Among Animals
Stirs Debate
Date: 23 July 2004
Description: Roy and Silo, two male chinstrap penguins
at New York's Central Park Zoo have been inseparable for six years now.
They display classic pair-bonding behavior—entwining of necks, mutual
preening, flipper flapping, and the rest. They also have sex, while ignoring
potential female mates.
Title: Antarctic
Challenge
Date: 13 October 2004
Source: South China Morning Post
Description: Teenagers in Hong Kong are encouraged to
visit China's giant ice-breaking ship Xue Long(Snow Dragon) before she
sets off on a 150-day trip to the Antarctic.
The ship will arrive in Tsim Sha Tsui on October 29 and will be open to
the public the following two days.
Title: Disaster of penguins
Date: 15 December 2004
Source: Apple Daily
Description: Owing to Global warming, the B15A ice is
going nearer and nearer to the antarctic shore. The ice blocked the way
that the penguins go, so they cannot feed their chicks and they may die.
Title: Journey's end
Date: 22 September 2005
Source: South China Morning Post
Description: Luc Jacquet's year-long stay in the Antarctic
to film the Emperor penguin has resulted in a documentary that's bowling
over critics and audiences alike.
Date: 21 July 2005
Source: SMH//MingPo
Description: The winner of an international competition to build a new ice station in Antarctica resembles a giant blue centipede and is designed to cope with one of the most inhospitable environments on Earth.
Date: 6 June 2006
Source: Reuters
Description: A penguin in London jumped into water for the first time.
Date: 29 September 2007
Source: Link
Description: As I'm studying genetics currently, I'm interested to know how many chromosomes there are in different penguin species. From this web site, only 3 kinds were studied, and their number of chromosomes ranges from 60-70. This website is quite useful. You will find more information about the cytogenic studies of penguins by clicking the link above.
Date: 1 August 2006
Source: Metro(Chi) // latimes(Eng)
Description: In Argentina, dozens of freshly cleaned Magellanic penguins waddled into the ocean Monday to the applause of onlookers, the first batch of close to 200 goo-covered birds that were rescued and washed after an oil spill.
Title: An Emperor penguin got lost in Antartica and went to New Zealand
Date: 22 June 2011
Source: AppleDaily
Description: Emperor penguins used to live in Antartica. However, one of the emperor penguins got lost during his/ her way home and swam to New Zealand.