Penguins are cool

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Yellow-eyed penguin, Oamaru, New Zealand
Photo by Richard Giddins

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African penguins
African penguin chick rescue in South Africa (story and more GIFs)

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Emperor penguins with a painted penguin dummy, Weddell Sea, Antarctica
Photo by Frans Lanting

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Emperor penguin chicks huddling for warmth in -24C blizzard
Photo by Gunter Riehle
Don’t give him the cold shoulder! Baby penguins in Antarctica…(story and lots more pics)

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Humboldt penguins during the annual stocktake, London Zoo, London, England
Photo by Kirsty Wigglesworth

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Adelie penguin is OUT OF CONTROL

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African penguins, Budapest Zoo, Hungary
Photo by aGinger at Flickr

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Royal penguins, Macquarie Island
Photo by Richard Dakin

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Humboldt penguin cools off with a Dyson bladeless fan during a heat wave, London Zoo, London, England
Photo by Matt Crossick
Animals Cool Down at London Zoo

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Chinstrap penguin, Aitcho Islands, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
Photo by Ralph Lee Hopkins

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Emperor penguins protect the colony’s chicks from the cold in a crèche
Photo by Frederique Olivier for John Downer Productions
P-p-pictures of penguins: Amazing first photo of mums’ crèche to warm chicks in -60C Antarctic wilderness

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Leucistic gentoo penguin, Antarctica
Photo by Miles Hearn
Piebaldism, albinism, melanism and leucism (informative article with illustrative photos of other animals as well)

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At Norway’s Bergen Aquarium, a female Gentoo penguin added an unusual third egg to her normal clutch of two. Since the first two eggs had been laid a month before, they would hatch first and would have crushed the third if it was still in the nest. So the aquarium staff decided to try giving the egg to Pondus and Herman Piele, two male Gentoos who, after fathering chicks with females in the conventional manner, had set up a nest together and were looking after it as if they were expecting to raise a family.



The egg hatched.


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After members of the public responded – in large numbers! -- to a newspaper’s request for suggestions, the chick was named Pride. And, a year later --


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English translation, from the source post: "We repeat the success from last year! And have decided to donate, not just one, but two eggs to our gay penguin couple Pondus and Herman Piele! They accepted the eggs with open wings, and Herman looks pretty proud, and ready to become a dad!"

This isn’t a unique situation, by the way:
Chinstrap penguins Roy and Silo, at New York City’s Central Park Zoo
King penguins Stan and Olli, at the Berlin Zoo in Germany
Humboldt penguins Jumbs and Kermit, at Wingham Wildlife Park in Kent, England
(And there are more!)

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Rockhopper penguin, Falkland Islands
Photo by Caitlin Finnerty

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Also posted to randompictures and splodefromcute