Humboldt Penguins
@GardenGerty (169448)
United States
July 21, 2020 10:03am CST
This is the penguin breed that the Sedgewick County Zoo has in their Penguin Cove. It is a mid sized penguin, and it lives in South America, so it can handle living in Kansas.
The exhibit has rocks for them to climb on, and a wonderful pool where they can swim. This guy kept coming right up to the window while swimming to see what I was doing.
Mostly the exhibit is glassed in, but there are also side areas that have chicken wire. I found it funny that some of the zoo visitors just barely came to the exhibit and decided that they stink too much. Animals smell. . . like animals. This exhibit may have had salt water as it did smell "oceanish" or it could be the fish they feed the penguins.
There were also some kind of terns ( a bird) that were accommodated in Penguin Cove.
This is one of the exhibits we visited at the zoo on Sunday.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
We enjoy visiting at zoos. Moreso when they are not real busy.
@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
Sometimes you can get a lot better view on television. We have been able to see all kinds of things on television that we would never experience otherwise.
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@gr8nana6 (6614)
• Conyers, Georgia
22 Jul 20
@GardenGerty Me too I can sit and enjoy them without having to walk 
@marguicha (230350)
• Chile
21 Jul 20
We have penguins in the south of our country up to the Antarctica.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
Some of them might be Humboldt penguins.
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@wolfgirl569 (135722)
• Marion, Ohio
22 Jul 20
Nosy guy. Some people are Well you know.Why go see animals if you dont want the smell.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
Like people who buy property near the waste water plant, build a fancy house and then complain of the smell. Think, people, think!
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
We did spend quite a bit of time there. Like I said, this particular one was really interested in us. Some of the others looked like they were standing around talking to each other, like at a party or somewhat. The terns fought over algae they would fish out of the water.
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@JudyEv (382036)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 Jul 20
@GardenGerty Some creatures seem as curious about us as we are about them.
@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
21 Jul 20
It is wonderful that you saw the penguins at the zoo on Sunday. I guess the smell was the fish that they eat. I went sand boarding in New Zealand. I saw a black speck in the sea. It turned out to be a fairy penguin. I went to Kangaroo Island in Australia and saw fairy penguins there. There were yellow eyed penguins on the south island of New Zealand.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
The fairy penguins are tiny, right? Neat to see them in their natural habitat. You are still a world traveler, I see.
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@maximax8 (31042)
• United Kingdom
22 Jul 20
@GardenGerty Yes, I agree the fairy penguins are tiny. It is wonderful to see them in the natural habitat. Yes, I am still very much a world traveler you see. Our trip in April though was cancelled due to the virus.
@CinnamonGrl (7086)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
21 Jul 20
Funny, I never minded those fishy smells at the zoo. And the piers in San Francisco were some of my favorite places. Definitely fishy smelling.
Anyhoo, the penguin is pretty. I haven't been to a zoo in a really long time.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
Are there any zoos near you? I have been through Santa Fe. Yeah, I also did not mind the smell of the cattle on my grandparent's ranch.
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@CinnamonGrl (7086)
• Santa Fe, New Mexico
22 Jul 20
@GardenGerty I don't even know lol. I haven't noticed any, and hadn't really thought of zoos since I've been here. I should look that up
@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
21 Jul 20
I haven’t been to a zoo in a good many years. It’s nice that you got to go.
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@GardenGerty (169448)
• United States
22 Jul 20
We have several in Kansas. We bought ourselves a membership for Christmas last year. Since it closed for the quarantine for a while, they have extended our membership until next May.
