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Aquarium makes way for penguins

Nationwide program seeks to conserve species

(Above) A penguin chick is weighed at the New England Aquarium. The aquarium breeds penguins as part of the Species Survival Program.
By Rebecca A. Fitzgerald
Globe Correspondent / September 3, 2007

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How's this for a job: First, stuff some children's vitamins into a frozen herring, capelin, or smelt. Then, drop the mixture into the eager mouths of a handful of fuzzy gray penguin chicks. (Full article: 597 words)

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