Captain Eo, one of the oldest penguins living under human care anywhere in the world, died yesterday at the age of 40, well over the species' average life expectancy of 20 to 30 years.
The oldest Magellanic penguin at the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens — one of the oldest penguins living under human care anywhere in the world — died Wednesday at the age of 40, the zoo reported.
Captain Eo was named for a 1980s Michael Jackson short film that was a Disneyland attraction and he was the last remaining founding member of the zoo's Magellanic penguin colony. Magellanic penguin are native to South America. They can grow more than 2 feet tall and weight as much as 14 pounds . Captin Eo had the personality of “an older sophisticated gentleman," Quinn Brown, the zoo's assistant curator of birds, said in the statement.
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