Zoo
Edinburgh Zoo
Open-air zoological park where a keeper's open gate turned into a daily penguin parade.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Edinburgh Zoo follows the accidental start of its famous penguin parade, back to around 1950 when a keeper forgot to lock a gate and a handful of curious birds followed him out. It traces the zoo's deeper history with penguins too, including its claim as the first zoo anywhere to successfully breed them, with a king penguin chick hatched in 1919. Listen for the story of the whaling ship that brought the first three penguins here five years earlier.
This audio guide was created using AI.