1.   African penguins, which are listed as vulnerable to extinction, are found only off the coast of southern Africa.

2.   African penguins take weeks, even months before they mate while the couple gets to know each other.

3.   African penguins, which are listed as vulnerable to extinction, are only found off the coast of southern Africa.

4.   African penguins, which are only found off the coast of southern Africa, are classified as vulnerable to extinction.

5.   Already, the slick has coated thousands of African penguins in oil and angered many residents in a city that prizes its clean coastline.

6.   The African penguins at the Baltimore Zoo look like proper, upstanding penguins, but looks can be deceiving.

7.   The African penguins, smaller than their more famous Antarctic cousins, are classified as a vulnerable species and are found only in South Africa and Namibia.

8.   The spill has set the African penguin population back by at least five years, Williams said.

9.   Three years ago, the American Zoo and Aquarium Association selected the Baltimore Zoo to establish a species survival plan for the North American population of African penguins.