As someone who is obsessed with penguins, celebrating World Penguin Day (April 25) was my in for a behind-the-scenes tour of the Jacksonville Zoo's Tuxedo Coast exhibit. Still, I almost couldn’t believe it when the zoo officials said yes!
– I was practically giddy in February when I showed up at the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens for a behind-the-scenes visit to Tuxedo Coast, the zoo’s penguin exhibit.with penguins. 🐧🐧🐧 My house at Christmas is completely decked out in penguin everything was my “in.” Still, I almost couldn’t believe it when the zoo officials said yes!I actually made my visit on Feb. 20, and, of course, I wore a penguin sweater and penguin earrings just for the occasion.
“Ow!” I yelped, whipping my fingers out of the danger zone. Bridges said that the penguin, Mrs. Smith, also known as “Goodyear,” is missing one eye so sometimes she’ll bite things that aren’t food. 🔒Insiders:All 29 penguins in the zoo’s colony have names, and a few, like “Goodyear,” have earned nicknames that the bird care specialists use instead.
And if you do go watch a feeding and you see the penguins “shivering” on land after they eat — that’s actually a digestive function. . They’re named for explorer Ferdinand Magellan, who spotted them off the tip of South America in 1520. “They’ve got 70 feathers per square inch, so they’re pretty much in a giant wetsuit,” Bridges said. “The water usually doesn’t actually touch the skin on their body.”
“It was a mom and daughter pair,” Bridges said. “So the mom had two kids, and her daughter had two kids So now we’ve got a grandma and grandpa.” When an artificially incubated egg successfully hatches, the bird care specialists pull another switcheroo. The zoo’s only hand-raised penguin is CJ who you might have seen visit our News4JAX studios a few times.
Bridges said whenever the zoo has fundraisers to help with penguin populations, it’s typically to benefit the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, which has a major focus on saving the endangered African penguins.
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