Harry and Pepper

Our male-male Penguin pair, Harry and Pepper are fostering a chick this year. Harrison Edell, our Curator of Birds tells us a little bit about these special birds.

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Pets & Animals

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• animal
• wildlife
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• magellanicpenguin
• aquatic
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• chick
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[anthonyb415]

This was a really fun video to shoot, be sure to check out the zoo's other Penguin videos!

[LivesForJihad]

Only in San Fran can two penguins be gay.

[scottclaudet]

gay

[Jumpybeaver]

This proves that the idea, that being gay is being ungodly. Is nothing but a bunch of shit! It's a shame these two are not still together.

[MrRayBnz]

Hary has grown up :-D

[maznyo]

Beware when planet Earth stops giving a damn about shits like humans.

[Rawrdoll]

I like it how he seemed to enjoy his job and how he didn't giggle when he mentioned both were male penguins. :P

( I so would have! lol).

[djtrixen]

I'm sorry what I meant to say is "Are our lives really so boring that we give two sh!ts about a bunch of penguins???" Ah.... much better. Censorship 5ucks.

[djtrixen]

CNN just ran a story that "Harry & Pepper" have split up because "Harry went straight." Seriously that had to be one of the funniest (not to mention lamest, at the same time) news stories I've ever seen. Are our lives really so boring that we give two shits about a bunch of penguins??? At least CNN made it kind of funny. They narrated it like it was a reality TV show. lol

[NotForUse]

WoWmasterdoom: wth are you talking about? they're not living in cages. and animals in zoos have a MUCH longer lifespan than animals in the wild. it's not just predators, animals in the wild are more likely to die from diseases or lack of food. in the zoo, they are always fed and given veterinary care to make sure they're in tip top shape.

[WoWmasterdoom]

Rhedell that is not true... animals do have a 75% chance of SURVIVAL in zoos than in the wild but... if they are the 25% of the population in the wild that does survive then they live longer in the wild... so basicly if you forget about any preditors and say there are no predators then animals live longer in the wild but yes you are right they cant die by any animals in a cage =( so if u are in the wild and survive all the predators u live longer than the guys in a cage. spread the word dont lie