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We're sad to report that one of the Woodland Park Zoo's Humboldt penguins has died. The 18-year-old male, Chiquito, formerly of Chicago's Brookfield Zoo, "died after a brief illness related to the ingestion of a sealant material used in a concealed pipe in the exhibit’s pool." No need to worry about the exhibit's other penguins--zoo staff have since located and removed the loose pieces of sealant, and two other penguins with similar (but less severe) symptoms are being closely monitored and show no signs of GI blockage. This is exactly why we need universal healthcare, people. Pour one out for Chiquito tonight.

The Outback Christmas Tree and Kangaroo Farm lives 49.5 miles north of Seattle and is an independently owned and operated animal haven of awesomeness. The drive is quick, the grounds are quaint, and the hometown Americana is off the charts. 40-minute tours are conducted every Wednesday through Sunday at 10 a.m., noon, 2 p.m., and 4 p.m. Your guide provides tons of great educational tidbits, all of which are hard to focus on as you’re tramping around paths and pens, convincing yourself this wallaby or that kangaroo likes you best.

Now thanks to the Woodland Park Zoo, the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project, there's a few more of these wee turtles in the wild.

We've been following the young lives of the Woodland Park Zoo's once ittty-bitty twin snow leopard cubs born May 25. The spotted white fluff balls have gotten big enough that they are scheduled to make their public debut on August 15, the zoo-dubbed International White Snow Leopard Day.

Look at that face! In the above video, the now six-week-old Woodland Park Zoo snow leopard cubs undergo another vet exam, complete with their first vaccinations and deworming. Awwwwww. There's only one little baby "peep" in the video (at 0:42), but you have to watch till the end to see the cubs trying their first solid food, chicken.

Yesterday, the Woodland Park Zoo uploaded the first video of the new snow leopard cubs to YouTube. The footage was shot Friday and consists of yet another weigh-in session. The female (Helen) weighed in at 3.8 lbs and the male (Tom) at 4.3 lbs. Starting at the one-minute mark, you can hear the cubs' noises, which are much more like a bird's peep than the yowl of the big cats they will grow up to be.

  

A pair of cutie pie snow leopard cubs, a male and a female, were born on Memorial Day at the Woodland Park Zoo. The above photos show the cubs at their neonatal exam and weigh-in (they currently weigh between 3.6 and 4 lbs). The 3-week-old cubs are the first offspring for the 4-year-old mother, Helen, and 3-year-old father, Tom. Whoa, baby: these cubs take the tally up to 29 snow leopards born at the zoo since 1972. That's a big deal, especially considering there's only about 3,500 snow leopards left in the wild. While you can't see them in person just yet (they're busy bonding with mom and drinking lots of milk), fans of the kitties can check out more photos and video via the zoo's blog, YouTube page, and Twitter.

• Did you know Seattle has the second-highest percentage of LGBT residents of any American city? Huh, did ya? Now the Seattle's Convention and Visitor's Bureau is trying to find the tourist gold at the end of the rainbow. They plan to introduce the cities first LGBT Travel Guidethis week with the hope to entice the traveling gays.
• We wuv those cute widdle itty-bitty tuxedo-wearing penguins, whom we can now see swimming in their new $6.5 million home.
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