Celebrating Penguins on World Penguin Day

african penguins swimming
For this World Penguin Day, on April 25, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden wants to highlight one of our favorite flightless birds, penguins.  The Zoo is home to five species of penguins: Magellanic, king, [...]

Happy Penguin Awareness Day!

For this Penguin Awareness Day, we’d like to share all about our new baby in blue. On December 13th, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden welcomed our newest Zoo chick, a little blue penguin. [...]

Penguin Awareness Day

Penguin (Photo: Cassandre Crawford)
Today is Penguin Awareness Day! These quirky, flightless birds are found throughout the Southern hemisphere, and while we often think of them as cold-weather birds, there actually are a number of species that survive [...]