African Penguin
(Spheniscus demersus)
2004 @dallaszoo 🏙️

The only penguin species of Africa. 🌍

It's expected to be extinct in the wild in a few years.⚰️

I wish we could just put a band-aid on everything... 🩹

Check @sanccob 🌠

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Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus percnopterus) at breakfast.🦅 ⠀ ⠀
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"How about some salt and pepper for your delicious cadaver?" - "No thanks, sir! It tastes best on its own!" 😋

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The Apocalyptic Peacock 🦚💙

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If I look at that, I want to be a penguin. But I'm a sloth. 😁⠀ ⠀
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Are the zoos or even public swimming pools open for you?
Most of our zoos in Germany are open since the beginning of May.
Now I have read that the swimming pools are reopening too.

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🌊🌊🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧💕🌞 All ready for an early swim?😁 I forgot my swimming trunks.😳
Hmm.. maybe it wouldn't have been necessary...😏 Do penguins bathe naked, or in a dress coat?🤔💭⠀ ⠀
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Incidentally, these are Humboldt penguins. The same species that I saw in the wild in Peru (Islas Ballestas).💙

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Yesterday I went to the zoo with my girlfriend. Doesn't she look adorable? 🐧💕🐜 ⠀ ⠀
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Corona is such a 💩!
Can't meet my real girlfriend...
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The zoo visit was very nice. Only a few people... sunshine... I could make a lot of photos and videos... 😁🌞

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💕🐧🐧🐧💕 African penguins (Spheniscus demersus) are the only penguin species of Africa. Their wild population has decreased by 90 percent since 1956. At this rate of decline, the African Penguin is expected to be extinct in the wild by 2026. You can help the Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (@sanccob , sanccob.co.za) with a donation.

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Barramunda / Australian lungfish
(Neoceratodus forsteri) in the Frankfurt Zoological Garden.

There are 6 species of lungfish in the world, of which the Australian is the most primitive. The lungfish morphology has hardly changed in the last 100 million years and therefore, like the closely related coelacanths, are considered living fossils.

Genetic studies, as well as the skull structure, the arrangement and shape of the fins, the approach of separation of oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and oxygen-poor blood from the body, suggest a close relationship to the tetrapods, to which we also belong.

Netherless, the lungfish aren't considered our ancestors, but are closely related to them.

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Mata mata! 😄🐢
A nocturnal freshwater turtle that is found mainly in the Amazon and Orinoco basins. There it prefers shallow waters, where it remains motionless until a fish comes close. Only small fish are eaten by creating a vacuum that sucks the prey into its mouth. The fish is swallowed whole, the structure of the mouth makes it impossible to chew.

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