Magellanic Penguin chicks at the San Francisco Zoo

We had a great breeding season this year with seven chicks hatched! These chicks stay with their parents until about five weeks of age, when they are then taken to our Avian Conservation Center for fish school where they learn to swim and eat. In the wild, Magellanic penguin parents abandon their chicks at this fledgling stage. This episode of Behind-the-Scenes plunges into the Zoo's fish school, enjoy!

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[AmericanStory1]

That's a sweet fuckable woman, yummy.

[pethemoose]

haha, seth?! GO TOWS.

[Kyoku89]

Those aren't Charlie, Riley, Gnocci and Thistle. Those are the penguins a year before them.

[pethemoose]

i worked with those penguins. Charlie, Riley, Gnocci, and Purple.

[rawenergy32]

how can penguins "learn to be penguins" when they're not in their natural environment?

What they are learning is adaptation...

[bobthemans]

nice video

[wavewash]

The penguins are so cool.

[xHolyPiratex]

HAHAHAHA...is that anthony in the begining??? hahah now i know what podcasts are...

this is seth...a penguin recorder... i cant wait to c the walk on video