If you’re a fan of penguins — the swimming kind, not the ones skating on ice at PPG Arena — you’ll see a new species this summer at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium. It recently added a baker’s dozen of Humboldt penguins to Kids Kingdom, as well as a trio of brown pelicans.

The Humboldt penguins are the third species of the flightless bird that are populating the zoo. Unlike the gentoo and the macaroni penguins who make up the current Pittsburgh penguin family, the Humboldt originated from South America, living along the rocky coast of Peru and Chile.

Tiffani Thompson, curator of Kids Kingdom, says after the zoo moved its penguin flock to the former sea lion pool at in Kids Kingdom, they brainstormed on what new species they could introduce to the open area before landing on the temperate s

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