Actual penguin fact: you can't tell the gender of a penguin (for sure) by looking.[1] You have to do a DNA test.










[1]at least, for African penguins and their close cousins, Magellanic and Humboldt. Not sure about the others and too… Continue

This week's penguin is in loving memory of my dad, Jack Beaven, who passed away recently. He was a lifelong fan of Dixieland jazz, a vice he passed on to me. He particularly liked the way penguins play it.