Happily ever after on World Penguin Day in New Zealand

Today, 25 April, marks World Penguin Day and nowhere celebrates penguins quite like New Zealand, where you’ll find more penguin species – and more ways to see them – than anywhere else in the world. At Auckland’s Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium, a same-sex pair of king penguins are celebrating World Penguin Day with their surrogate foster chick.

Dubbed Thelma and Louise (pictured below), the mothers’ doting love for their joyful bundle testifies to the character of these majestic birds and the strong family bond penguins create. The 24-year old mothers share their home with fellow king and Gentoo penguins in Kelly Tarlton’s Antarctic penguin enclosure.