Service Penguins Come to the New Jersey Aquarium People have long held a fascination with penguins. Now visitors to the New Jersey State Aquarium in Camden will have the opportunity to see these creatures up close at a new exhibit called Inguza Island. They are the only penguins native to Africa, and have recently become endangered in the wild, their population declining from 1.2 million in the early 1990s to an estimated 140,000 today.
African penguins are friendly and inquisitive and engage in a variety of behaviors.
To move around, penguins hop, waddle, scurry and swim. Most live in tropical or temperate areas, like South America, New Zealand, or Australia.