Are you sure SeaWorld Orlando has Emperors? To my knowledge that exhibit only holds King, Adelie, Gentoo and Rockhopper penguins, and has never had Emperors.
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SeaWorld Orlando has never had them to my knowledge.
They do not have Emperor Penguins.
Or maybe they went to the wrong Orlando
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You're incorrect there pal. San Diego has the only Emps in North America, and that's not likely to change any time soon. Their flock is all on the older side (all their birds are between 10 and 30+ years old) and they are really trying to breed them, so it would make no sense to split the flock and send half of them off to a new, already fairly filled up, exhibit.
Edit: Others already beat me to it.
I could have sworn they also had some species of rockhopper
I've heard so too but not sure if it's accurate.
I didn't see any rockhoppers on my 2018 visit.
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Nor did I. Though the references I've seen are recent.
I could have sworn a keeper referred to them either in 2019 or 2018 or 2017
I've seen african penguins (Kyoto Aquarium, Tokyo Sea Life Park), king penguins (Osaka Aquarium, Melbourne Aquarium, Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium), rockhopper penguins (Osaka Aquarium), adelie penguins (Osaka Aquarium), gentoo penguins (Kelly Tarlton's Aquarium, Osaka Aquarium, Melbourne Aquarium), little penguins (Tokyo Sea Life Park), humboldt penguins (Tokyo Sea Life Park)
I saw a website claiming that Tokyo Sea Life Park has four penguin species, but I only remember seeing three, african, humboldt and little. DOes anyone know what the fourth species is?
I saw a website claiming that Tokyo Sea Life Park has four penguin species, but I only remember seeing three, african, humboldt and little. DOes anyone know what the fourth species is?
Seeing previous video of TSLP there are king penguins too with the other 3, although I don't remember seeing them last year too.
I see from the gallery SeaWorld Orlando does have Rockhopper, maybe they transferred a few or maybe we're getting confused somewhere.
I had a look at the photos I took of the penguins at TSLP, no king penguins whatsoever. They may have been taken of display, I visited TSLP in December 2019. There was a rockhopper that I didn't notice before.
I just checked I 2016 video from SeaWorld and in the exhibit, there were zero records of rockhoppers which means if they were or are there then they would have arrived after 2016 or left before 2016
The only 2 long-term currently captive penguin species I'm missing are the New Zealand Little Blue Penguin (if it is indeed a species separate from the Australian) and the Fiordland Crested Penguin (at Taronga Zoo). Both would require me to visit Oceania.