Little Penguins on Middle Island in Warrnambool, Victoria were subject to heavy predation by foxes, which could reach the island at low tide by a tidal sand bridge.

Entertainment Weekly put it on its end-of-the-decade, " best-of " list, saying, " Whether they were walking ( March of the Penguins ), dancing ( Happy Feet ), or hanging ten ( Surf's Up ), these oddly adorable birds took flight at the box office all decade long.

The Penguins were an American doo-wop group of the 1950s and early 1960s, best remembered for their only Top 40 hit, " Earth Angel ( Will You Be Mine )", which was one of the first rhythm and blues hits to cross over to the pop charts.

The original members of The Penguins were:

The Penguins were inducted into The Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2004.

Documentary and mockumentary films, such as March of the Penguins and Super Size Me, were popular in the 2000s.

The Islanders won the regular-season title, yet once in the playoffs, they were pushed to the maximum five games by the Pittsburgh Penguins and to six games by the Rangers.

The Islanders ' next opponent, the Pittsburgh Penguins, were twice-defending Stanley Cup champions and full of stars such as Mario Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr and Ron Francis.

The Penguins had roared through the regular season with 119 points, as well as recording a record 17 consecutive wins towards the end of the season, and were overwhelmingly favored to win a third straight championship.

The doors to the team's offices were padlocked, and it looked like the Penguins might fold or relocate.

Around the same time, rumors had begun to circulate that the Penguins and California Golden Seals were to be relocated to Seattle and Denver respectively, the two cities that were to have been the sites of an expansion for the 1976 – 77 season.

The Bruins protested this color change, claiming a monopoly on black and gold, but the Penguins defended their choice by stating that the NHL Pirates also used black and gold as their team colors, and that that black and gold were Pittsburgh's traditional sporting colors.

Heading towards the end of the season ahead of the New Jersey Devils, who were placed last, the Penguins made a number of questionable moves that appeared to weaken the team in the short-term.

In particular, Angotti gave the example of a game the Penguins were winning 3 – 1, at which point general manager Eddie Johnston asked the coach " what are you doing?

The Penguins were still, despite losing ten of their last twelve games, only two games away from losing Lemieux to the Devils.

The Penguins were simultaneously in the midst of a battle for their survival.

When the deferred salaries finally came due, combined with other financial pressures, the Penguins were forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in November 1998.

However, the Penguins were unable to secure the first overall draft pick as they lost the draft lottery for the 2004 NHL Entry Draft to the Washington Capitals.

However, they were swept four games to none by the Mario Lemieux-led defending Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins ( who, in sweeping the Blackhawks, tied the record Chicago had set only days before ).

Its leading career scorers were Ken Gribbons, who played most of his career in the IHL ; Bob McCammon, a lifelong IHLer who went on to be a National Hockey League coach with the Philadelphia Flyers and the Vancouver Canucks ; Bill LeCaine and Larry Gould, who played a handful of NHL games with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Vancouver Canucks, respectively.

The Sabres were subsequently upset 4 games to 3 by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the second round.

In early 1975, newspapers reported that the Seals and Pittsburgh Penguins were to be relocated to Denver and Seattle, respectively, in an arrangement that would have seen the two teams sold to groups in those cities that had already been awarded " conditional " franchises for the 1976-77 season.

On May 24, 2008, the Tiger statue at the main entrance to the ballpark was dressed with a Detroit Red Wings jersey as the Red Wings were playing against the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals during that time.

Less than one hour from the centre of the city, it is possible to see Little Penguins in all months, including visiting sensitive areas where they remain on land for extended periods for the purposes of moulting.

Penguins have an average sense of hearing for birds ; this is used by parents and chicks to locate one another in crowded colonies.

Most penguins lay two eggs in a clutch, although the two largest species, the Emperor and the King Penguins, lay only one.

Penguins generally only lay one brood ; the exception is the Little Penguin, which can raise two or three broods in a season.

This culminated in the worst record in the NHL, winning just 23 games, putting the Penguins in line to draft ' can't-miss ' Russian phenom Alexander Ovechkin with the number one pick.

El Monte is known for the long-time rock & roll hit " Memories of El Monte ", written by Frank Zappa and originally recorded by The Penguins, one of the local Doo-wop groups from the 1950s that became famous nationwide.

However, Warner Bros. began to release DVD collections of classic cartoons in 2003 entitled the Looney Tunes Golden Collection with one of the cartoons ( Frigid Hare, which depicts a stereotypical Eskimo trying to kill a baby penguin, and was still seen on Cartoon Network as late as 2002 and featured as a DVD extra in March of the Penguins ) featured on the set uncut and uncensored.

His seven shootout goals ( over 11 attempts ) tied for second in the league, one behind Erik Christensen of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

Vegas gold is one of the official athletic colors for the Pittsburgh Panthers, the South Florida Bulls, the UAB Blazers, the Pittsburgh Penguins ( formerly yellow ), and the Vanderbilt Commodores.

On March 24, 1998, the Penguins traded his rights to the Anaheim Mighty Ducks for Sean Pronger, but Lalime stayed with the Griffins, and played in one playoff game, allowing four goals in an overtime loss.

The third and final one showed Satchel and Bucky as trading cards, with Satchel being " Mario Lepooch " ( a parody of Pittsburgh Penguins owner and star Mario Lemieux ) and Bucky being " Buck Tekulve " ( after former Pirates reliever Kent Tekulve ).

He and his entire body of work were created in one day in 1944 by writers James McAuley and Harold Stewart in order to hoax Max Harris and Angry Penguins, the modernist magazine Harris had founded and edited.

On October 29, 2000, in a 9-0 victory against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Madden and Randy McKay became the first NHL teammates to each score four goals in one game since January 14, 1922.

* 2000 – 01: Buffalo Sabres ( through 2005 – 06 ), Ottawa Senators ( through 2006 – 07 ), Pittsburgh Penguins ( through 2001 – 02 ; became home uniform after one season )

After scoring the opening goal to help stave off elimination in a triple-overtime game five victory, Hossa scored his team-leading 12th and final post-season goal in the sixth and deciding game to pull the Penguins within one goal.

After a brief hiatus from the NHL, Lang returned after one season in Europe, joining the Pittsburgh Penguins as a free agent on September 2, 1997.

On May 5, 2000, Primeau scored the game-winning goal in the longest game in modern NHL playoff history ( five overtime periods for a total of 152 minutes and one second ) against Ron Tugnutt of the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinals.

He scored at least one point in his first five NHL games, including his first NHL goal on October 8 against Peter Skudra of the Pittsburgh Penguins.

The viewing centre for the albatross colony is one of the peninsula's main ecotourism attractions, along with other wildlife such as seals and Yellow-eyed Penguins.

The majority ( around 88 % in one study ) of dives undertaken by King Penguins are flat-bottomed ; that is, the penguin dives to a certain depth and remains there for a period of time hunting ( roughly 50 % of total dive time ) before returning to the surface.

King Penguins form huge breeding colonies ; for example, the colony on South Georgia Island at Salisbury Plain holds over 100, 000 breeding pairs and the one at St. Andrew's Bay over 100, 000 birds.

Bathgate was chosen by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1967 NHL Expansion Draft, and after one season, he returned to the Canucks where he would help lead the team to two consecutive Lester Patrick Cup victories, in 1969 and 1970.

He won four Stanley Cups with the Islanders, two with the Penguins and one as an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche.