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You are within touching distance of the penguin for most of the visit.
The Newport Aquarium, for a fee, allows "penguin encounters" with their African penguins. This is approximately 20 minutes hearing about conservation for this threatened species, and, most importantly, being allowed to pet them.
The Newport Aquarium, for a fee, allows "penguin encounters" with their African penguins. This is approximately 20 minutes hearing about conservation for this threatened species, and, most importantly, being allowed to pet them.
This penguin was so accepting of a bunch of strange people feeling it, touching it, petting it.. It was very sweet.
It was actually very very soft, and I'm not if it was a boy or a girl because there is no way to tell my physical appearance. In fact, you have to run a blood test to know.
He's Macaroni 131 because when you have over 300 penguins you can't really give them all names, then remember them.
This specific variety of penguin is down to 50,000 in the wild, and proceeds from the Penguin Encounter visits goes to helping keep up their populations.
The Newport Aquarium, for a fee, allows "penguin encounters" with their African penguins. This is approximately 20 minutes hearing about conservation for this threatened species, and, most importantly, being allowed to pet them.