Hang Out With This Baby Penguin to Learn About His Endangered Species

know that classic video ofpolar bear cublearning to walk?Baby bateating banana?Dogdressed as mutant spider ? ! ? Brace yourselves , netizens . On Thursday , you could chat with a calendar month - old African penguin in a Google Hangout . It ’s like you ’re in the viral video .

This Thursday , June 4 at 1 to 1:30 p.m. EST , log onto “ require a Penguin Chick ” and chat with Curry , the newest aquatic fowl at the California Academy of Sciences . He ’ll be joined by his posse of biologists who can answer your doubt about Curry ’s species , the African penguin . ( Or worldwide doubt about penguins . ) Curry ’s species , though , was classified as endangered in 2010 — and faces quenching in the wild . RSVP to the eventhere , where you could also submit interrogative sentence . you could also inquire on the Facebookpage .

Curry ’s the 4th African penguin bird to think up at the Bay Area - free-base Academy this yr . The Academy is cognise for breed the species — its settlement is part of theSpecies Survival Plan . Never heard of it ? Organized by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums , it ’s an first step that keeps genetic diversity inviolate via controlled breeding . AZA members — zoos and aquariums in the US and Canada — can exchange the fauna offspring . Some endanger species the platform includes are the giant cat bear , California condor , and lowland Gorilla gorilla .

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So subject dubiousness , Gizmodians . You ’re an speculative crowd . you’re able to skip one interrogation , though . His namesake ? It ’s Golden State Warriors point safeguard , Stephen Curry .

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