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I love penguins. They are so cute and cuddly! As you know--penguins are synonymous with love. Young baby penguins are so fluffy.
While Mark and I were at Sea World this summer, we stopped by to see the penguins at the Penguin Encounter. My favorite penguins there were the Magellanic Penguin. They were in the outside exhibit. These guys are the medium sized penguins. They get to be about 2-2 1/2 feet tall and weigh no more than 15 pounds. They live in Argentina, Chile, Falkland Islands, and some live in Brazil.
How cute is that! He is walking down to the pond to quench his thirst.
Some of my favorite penguin movies are:
Happy Feet
Surf's Up
March of the Penguins
Penguins also appear in Madagascar. Those are some of the funniest penguins. They came out with their own animated short Penguin's Christmas Caper. It was originally released at the beginning of Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. Then it was put on the Madagascar DVD. In the story, the youngest penguin on the team, Private, slips out of the zoo on Christmas Eve to find a present for a lonely polar bear named Ted. While roaming the streets of Manhattan, he is captured by an old lady who mistakes him for a chew toy for her vicious dog, Mr Chew. The other three penguins, Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico, rescue Private from the old lady's apartment before it is too late. At the end of the film they invite Ted to their home. But he had already invited guests, resulting in a massive sing-a-long to a parody of Jingle Bells. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Madagascar_Penguins_in_a_Christmas_Caper) I haven't seen Madagascar 2 yet, but I want to see it! Those guys are probably my favorite penguin characters.
The Penguins: Skipper, Rico, Kowalski, and Private, are four penguins who spend their days planning an escape that will take them back to Antarctica. When the penguins do make it to Antarctica, they are surprised to see a cold, barren land that they do not like and so, decide to take the ship to Florida. However, having run out of fuel, they beach the ship in Madagascar.
Skipper is the leader of the group. Kowalski, the smartest and tallest of the penguins, thinks of plans and takes notes for Skipper. Private is distinguishable by his googly eyes and soft English accent; he is the youngest of the group and specializes in code breaking. Rico is good with knives, has a fondness for explosives, and is the only one of the four seen swimming. He also regurgitates useful objects such as a piece of wire for picking locks with. Alex describes the penguins as psychotic (while they say the same of him). Skipper calls Marty their "monochromatic friend", amusing since both kinds of animals are "black and white". (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_(2005_film).
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