Discovery News - One of the world’s only successful emperor penguin breeding colonies outside the Antarctic, along with other penguins, is now visible to Internet surfers via a new live online experience called “Penguin Cam.”
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Discovery Channel and SeaWorld San Diego just launched the cam. Its live feed will be available on the FROZEN PLANET fansite, on SeaWorld’s website, and on USTREAM from March 1 until April 30, 2012.
“SeaWorld San Diego’s Penguin Encounter features nearly 300 penguins representing five Antarctic and sub-Antarctic species (gentoo, Adélie, macaroni, king and emperor),” David Koontz, a spokesperson at SeaWorld San Diego, told Discovery News. “Guests get a close-up look at these delightful animals as they swim and waddle in the 25-degree, snow-filled habitat.”
He added, “Warm-weather (temperate climate) Magellanic penguins, native to South America, live in (an) exhibit outside the Penguin Encounter.”
Koontz himself is mesmerized by the Penguin Encounter exhibit and the cam, which he said are “intoxicating.”
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