Penguins are highly intelligent and emotional animals. They’re able to recognize one another and even their partners. Some ...

The fairy penguin (also known as the little penguin) is the world's smallest penguin. Every night, in many places along the coast of Southern Australia, penguin colonies return en masse from their ...

They are also called little blue penguins or fairy penguins. They stand about 12 to 14 inches tall and weigh roughly 3 pounds, slightly bigger than a standard bowling pin. While the study focused ...

The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These adorable birds inhabit New Zealand and Southern Australia. Known for their ...

In June, a dozen of little penguins - locally called fairy penguins - were found killed in an apparent dog attack on a nearby beach at the Low Head Conservation Area. Little penguins in the wild ...

king penguin, little blue/fairy penguin, yellow eyed penguin, Magellanic penguin and the erect crested penguin. But then in 2006, the rockhopper penguin began to be recognised as two different ...

St Kilda Pier in Melbourne has a colony of around 1,400 fairy penguins, the smallest penguin species with an average height of just 33cm. The colony is monitored by volunteers. “A volunteer ...