Shedd Aquarium has named its two newest rockhopper penguins, Pico and Douglas, nods to their South American roots and the Falkland Islands’ penguin population, respectively.

A rookery of Southern rockhopper penguins nests between a rocky slope and a tussac grassland. The penguins bring in nutrients from the ocean directly to the grasses at the Kidney Island National ...

Soon after, the African penguin was listed as endangered and the New Zealand-Australia populations of the southern rockhopper penguin were listed as threatened. After another Center petition, in 2014 ...

And today, she's meeting rockhopper penguins! On this mission, Erin visits the Falkland Islands to find why the population of rockhopper penguins has fallen by 80 percent since the 1930s.

Three rockhopper penguins joined the Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium family in 2005. "As they say, dynamite comes in small packages. These guys are very loud, very territorial, so they're a little ...

The eastern rockhopper penguin breeds on Prince Edward Island and the Marion Islands in South Africa, the Crozet Islands and Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern Territories, Australia's Heard and ...

The original 50p coins featured the wrong variety of Rockhopper penguin But one of them featured a variety of penguin that was actually native to an island 4,000km away, making them more valuable ...

Two endangered penguin eggs have successfully hatched at Edinburgh Zoo. The Northern Rockhopper penguins are threatened due to climate change, changes in marine ecosystems and overfishing.

from the impressive 1.2m tall Emperor Penguins of the British Antarctic Territory to the smaller, agile Southern Rockhopper Penguins of the Falkland Islands – nine out of 18 penguin species ...

which include five species - Southern rockhopper, Macaroni, King, Gentoo and Chinstrap - several of whom periodically fill the air with high-pitched vocalizations. In total, there are 86 penguins ...