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watching the icebergs
Originally uploaded by zoom images

Gentoo penguins admire the view

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Hungry Gentoo.jpg
Originally uploaded by c0lin_bates

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Edinburgh Zoo: gentoo penguin
Originally uploaded by --CWH--

Little Gentoo Tries to Fly

Your morning adorable: Gentoo penguin chick flaps his wings as if trying to fly

September 27, 2010 | 

We could hardly believe our eyes when we saw YouTube user ashokbo's video of a young gentoo penguin that looks suspiciously as if he's giving himself flying lessons.

Ashokbo suspects the little guy "has not learned that he is a penguin and [cannot] fly!" (We wonder if he isn't merely practicing his swimming skills, but we like ashokbo's idea better.)

This enthusiastically flapping fellow is a resident of Petermann Island, an Antarctic island that's home to a large population of gentoo and Adelie penguins.

A gentoo penguin is easily distinguishable from other types of penguin by the markings on its head (white patches behind each eye that meet at the crown of its head), its orange beak and its bushy tail feathers. Gentoos are the third-largest type of penguin, behind the emperor penguin and the king penguin.

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DSCF1427
Originally uploaded by andybx

All by myself...

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Edinburgh Zoo: gentoo penguin
Originally uploaded by --CWH--

GENTOOS live on many of the islands of the Antarctic region but the main colony is on the Falklands. There are about 300,000 breeding pairs on the islands.

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Gentoo Penguins
Originally uploaded by Anne Froehlich

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IMG_9640 -1
Originally uploaded by grafxmangrafxman

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Gentoo penguin
Originally uploaded by Andricongirl

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Mating ritual
Originally uploaded by emmasin

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Originally uploaded by grafxmangrafxman

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Water Glider
Originally uploaded by RonWooten

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penguins yeah!
Originally uploaded by Sean Bonnette

Click to go to site and you'll see this gorgeous shot makes for excellent wallpaper~~

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Gentoo penguin, Isla Martillo
Originally uploaded by Niall Corbet

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gentoo penguins
Originally uploaded by mat's photos

Hey! You're going the wrong way!!!!

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You Lookin' At Me?
Originally uploaded by phoenixfeather

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HELLO!!
Originally uploaded by phoenixfeather

The Gentoo penguin's ecstatic display of greeting to its mate.

3 Minutes with Some Gentoos

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gentoo penguin!
Originally uploaded by knockout1013

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King George
Originally uploaded by Henry Stanislaw

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Originally uploaded by c0lin_bates

Playing Catch-up!!! (I've been taaaaaardy)

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Gentoo Chicks
Originally uploaded by Seeing Swallowtails

Two Gentoo Chicks (Pygoscelis papua) making funny faces.

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"Penguins In July" Gentoo Penguin
Originally uploaded by John C. Akers jr.

camera hog? lol

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Black and white penguins!
Originally uploaded by judebrown

A rare leucistic gentoo

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Gentoo Penguin Gourdin Island Antarctica
Originally uploaded by orclimber

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Falkland Islands - Bluff Cove - Gentoo Colony
Originally uploaded by Chris&Steve

Where is this queue going?

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DSCF1427
Originally uploaded by andybx

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Gentoo Penguin paddling
Originally uploaded by mgsbird

At Neko Harbour, Antarctic Peninsula.

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