New England Aquarium opens penguin retirement home
African penguins are an endangered species with a life expectancy of 10 – 15 years in the wild. Penguins in the care of the New England Aquarium can live to twice that age. Like us, geriatric penguins need different levels of care, so the aquarium has created a separate island habitat for its older residents.
"In the wild, they would neve…
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