When Buddy met Pedro
19.05.12
While the others frolicked, they would repair to a shady nook underneath a large rock for alone time. Zoo workers were pleased: the penguins spent about 70 per cent of their time this summer swimming, a sign of contentment for the species. But even zoo officials rely on their colour-coded flipper bands to pick them out—pale orange for Pedro, flamboyant yellow for Buddy. When they arrived in Toronto from an all-male colony at the Toledo Zoo last November, they were placed in quarantine, then gradually introduced to the other penguins, imported from two different U. S. facilities. But Buddy and Pedro proved to be a little aloof—especially to the girls. The group then spent the winter indoors, in a building next to the exhibit, getting to know each other and their keepers. In May, when the display opened, they moved outside to the large pool—a former seal pen with vantage areas up top and windows down below for the underwater view. Soon it was apparent that they had bonded. Height, just a tad over two feet.
Source: Macleans.ca
