Penguins and their friends
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Welcome to the black-footed penguins and their friends' area: ring-tailed coatis, black-tailed prairie dogs and Bennett's wallabies...
In this space of 7000m2, the visitor is invited to follow the Nono penguin adventures. Over a fascinating journey across five continents, children discover the means of interactive animations, styles of life and locomotion of penguins, coatis, prairie dogs and wallabies.
The highlight of course is the penguin area with a colony of 20 birds.
Step 1: Nono in Australia with Bennett Wallabies...
From the family of kangaroos, the Bennett Wallaby lives in Tasmania, a little island close to Australia.
Their great big back paws with many claws are very strong and enable them to do great big jumps to move .
The babies grow for several months in the pouch.
Step 2: Nono in South America with the coatis...
The coati lives in the tropical rainforest of South America. Nocturnal and very active, he's a member of the racoon and red panda family. His amazing sense of smell and his claws allow him to find his food that is buried in the ground. Overall the coati is an arboreal animal who spends a lot of his time in the trees.
Step 3: South Africa, Nono's home country and his friends the black footed penguins...
The black footed penguin is a sea bird who lives in austral hemisphere (south pole) in colony's on the islands situated in-between Namibia and the Algoe bay in South Africa.
An excellent swimmer and driver, but he doesn't fly!
Today, there are only 18 species left and the population is constantly on the decline. There are several causes for the decline: pollution, industrialisation, eggs collected, overfishing,... This is why this specie is controlled by the EEP.
Step 4: Nono in North America with the prairie dogs...
Their name comes from the fact that their cry sounds like a dog barking!
There are five species, originating from Colorado, Mexico and Utah.
In the space of one hundred years the population of this specie has gone from 800 million to 2 million today.
The prairie dogs also live in big groups on a huge area of land full of burrows where they hibernate.
