Pico, whose name means “beak” in Spanish, honors the penguin’s South American roots, while Douglas is named after a settlement on East Falkland Island, home to many rockhopper penguins.

The southern rockhopper subspecies breeds on the Falkland Islands and in southern Chile and southern Argentina. The eastern rockhopper penguin breeds on Prince Edward Island and the Marion Islands in ...

The Islands have the largest gentoo population in the world and second in Rockhopper penguins (Photo: S. Jaffray) According to the most recent count in the Falklands, the number of Gentoo penguin ...

And, sometimes, cataract surgery. And this was part of the longevity recipe for Wellington, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium’s oldest and best-known rockhopper penguin, which marked the milestone ...