Potter’s Blog

How many people can say they have a penguin boyfriend? Keeper Vicky can! In the next episode of The Young and the Flightless, Keeper Vicky shares tales of her "penguin boyfriends" over the years.…

Everyone loves a good nap, but some of our penguins take napping to the next level! On Episode 4 of The Young and the Flightless, Keeper Vicky shares about the penguins who love to "pool nap" and…

What's in a name? Well, for our penguins, a lot of thought goes into choosing each penguin's name. A few of the penguins have some funny stories behind their names... Who is named after a rock? Is…

Have you ever wondered who the most dramatic penguin is at the Akron Zoo? In Episode 2 of our penguin soap opera, The Young and the Flightless, that honor has been been given to Ernie, our penguin…

When you have a penguin colony as large as ours, drama is inevitable. We often feel that the lives of our Humboldt penguins are quite the soap opera, so we decided to bring it to life! Welcome to…

Members of the Akron Zoo’s Horticulture Team can identify a wide variety of trees and plants in our park, and sometimes even your yards. Of the many tree species, evergreens (also known as conifers)…