The third-oldest zoo in the U.S. is evolving to embrace a mission of conservation and education. Here's how that affects the ...

the emperor female lays only one egg once a year. While other penguin males and females share incubation duties, the female emperor usually returns to the sea to feed after laying the egg ...

During incubation, when skuas are known to prey on penguin eggs, one penguin parent is forced to guard the eggs or small chicks continuously while their partner is away foraging for several days ...

When penguin parents were swapping nesting and foraging duties, as they do throughout the roughly 37-day egg-incubation phase, the researchers captured one member of the pair and equipped it with ...

Greater Flamingo dads play an active role in parenting. They build nests together with the females and keeps the eggs safe.

Brackett said that emperor penguin eggs take between 65 and 72 days to hatch. The chick's parents chose not to incubate the egg, so a specialist team at SeaWorld kept it warm until she made her debut.

Male emperor penguins spend the next two months incubating the eggs balanced atop their webbed feet and shielded from the cold by a flap of the penguin’s abdominal skin that forms a pocket ...

They marked 270 penguins’ backs with yellow paint so the birds could be reliably tracked. The researchers counted the birds, observed their courtship, egg-laying and incubation behaviors ...

The researchers gathered data on 14 penguins incubating eggs in a colony with approximately 3,000 breeding pairs on Antarctica's King George Island in December 2019. They measured electrical ...

This year, zoo staff pulled the first egg and gave it to gentoo penguin pair Mambo and Cookie, who did a "fantastic job" of incubating it for about 35 days. Hatty's egg was fertile, but as the ...

“But he was incubating a leaf ... their prized female king penguin, to lay an egg. She kept flirting with the male penguins. There was even mating, particularly with Frank, another penguin ...