thepittsburghchannel.com - 5/26/2008
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PITTSBURGH -- While Pittsburgh's hockey Penguins chase the Stanley Cup in Detroit, a young counterpart is waiting for them to bring it home so he can swim in it. Sidney the penguin, named after team captain Sidney Crosby, hatched at the National Aviary on the city's North Side in February. "He can eat up to a pound of fish a day by himself," said Erin Estell, manager of animal programs at the ...
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Sidney, The Hungry Penguin
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Sidney the penguin, named after team captain Sidney Crosby, hatched at the National Aviary on the city’s North Side in February.
“He can eat up to a pound of fish a day by himself,” said Erin Estell, manager of animal programs at the aviary. “He only weighs about five pounds. In the wild, that is a fifth of their body weight that they are eating.” That’s like a person eating 80 double cheeseburgers a day.
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Puck Daddy Live Blog: Stanley Cup finals, Game 2
Puck Daddy —
... and there's a new baby penguin at the National Aviary in Pittsburgh, and its name is Sidney. (What, were you expecting Jarkko the Penguin?) ...
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Snapshots —
... the puck. They're driving the net. Malone was in front of me quite a bit tonight. So was Roberts. They had guys going to the net. They had some opportunity in the power play in the first. And in the second, I thought they played real well again. We held them back. But we just got our backcheckers back and "D" getting pucks back quick. That's what our team is about. It's all team defense, and we play as a team. And that's why we win games, because we're a complete team. Finally, the lead Penguin spoke, with his nose a little ...
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