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it's
actually something that we do all the
time we take penguins on field trips on
a regular basis because it's really
actually good for them it's good to give
them exercise
gives them mental stimulation and just
seeing different sights and sounds
we tend to do them most days so
obviously we can't take 36 penguins
every day everywhere
so we rotate it through based off of
which birds get along socially and where
we're going some of our newer
younger chicks they might be still
getting used to field trips so we might
take them on the shorter ones around the
aquarium to get them acclimated get them
used to exploring around it actually
started
with our penguin wellington he is a 32
year old rockhopper penguin one of our
oldest
penguins and we took him up to the
amazon exhibit
and he seemed pretty curious about the
fish he was really looking around and
very engaged
we posted that video and that's kind of
where it started and
it's kind of gone viral if you could say
that since then
we definitely want to make sure that we
have enough staff around if they're
going to be in a big space penguins are
pretty small
our magellanic penguins are about 10 or
12 pounds and so they could fit in
little tiny areas if they want to so we
do make sure we keep
a good eye on them but we also have
really good relationships with our
penguins and so a lot of times they seek
us
out so if they know we're around they'll
follow us around and it's not as hard to
keep track of them as you might think