Video: Baby Penguin Reacts To First Sight Of Human

Humans love to line up in front of the glass walls at penguin zoo exhibits, staring at the antics of the black-and-white, two-legged creatures. But what about when the tides are turned, when penguins get a chance to meet the strange humans, observing them for the first time? That moment was captured on camera by a man traveling to penguins' home habitat, Antarctica.

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Mystery Hero Boy Rescues Penguin Egg At Seattle Zoo

Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo wants to learn the identity of a young boy who helped save a rejected penguin egg while he was visiting the zoo - as they would like to thank this good samaritan for his quick thinking. According to the Woodland Park Zoo, the two Humboldt penguins that hatched last week at Woodland Park Zoorepresented the first chicks of the zoo's penguin breeding season. However, if not for the sharp eyes of a little boy, the second egg might not have survived.

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Stolen Penguin Back Safe In Australia Sea World

A trio of men faces charges after allegedly stealing a penguin from Sea World on the Gold Coast of Australia's Queensland and then bragging about it online. Dirk, one of the park's 29 fairy penguins, was found under Southport pier Sunday night, frightened but apparently not hurt. The theft on Saturday night was the first of an animal in the park's 40-year history, the park's spokeswoman Renee Soutar said on Monday.

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Video: 'Frozen Planet:' Sea Lion Chases Penguin In Gripping Slow-Motion Sequence

Will the poor little penguin get away--or wind up inside the sea lion's belly? It's an obvious question for viewers of a video showing a gripping slow-motion chase sequence in which a Gentoo penguin tries desperately to elude the very toothy mouth of its pursuer.

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Crafty Penguin Busts Out Of Tokyo Aquarium

After scaling the walls of his enclosure to freedom, a one-year-old Humboldt penguin is on the run/swimafter escaping last Sunday morning. While the crafty escape artist is neither armed nor dangerous, Toyko police are aiding in the hunt for the penguin that scaled a sheer rock face to escape from Tokyo Sea Life Park. The tuxedoed fugitive was last seen swimming in the Old Edogawa river, which runs into Tokyo Bay.

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Video: Kentucky Senate Penguin Poops On Floor

Things got a little wild on the floor of the Kentucky Senate this week, but it wasn't a late-breaking political scandal that shocked lawmakers. It was a pooping penguin. Paula, a penguin from the Newport Aquarium near Cincinnati, Ohio, was visting the Kentucky Legislature Tuesday as part of a resolution honoring the aquarium for its work with penguins and other marine animals, reported the Lexington Herald-Leader.

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Video: White Penguin Spotted In Antarctica

This penguin seems to have decided to go against the grain, sporting a cream tux instead of the traditional black and white as he waddles around Antarctica. This rare, nearly all-white leucistic Chinstrap penguin was snapped by naturalist David Stephens on Lindblad Expeditions’ National Geographic Explorerat the Aitcho Islands this week.

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Penguin Takes Wrong Turn and Ends Up in New Zealand

A young Emperor penguin took a rare wrong turn from the Antarctic and ended up stranded on a New Zealand beach – the first time in 44 years the aquatic bird has been sighted in the wild in the South Pacific country.

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