african penguins

"Patience is a South African penguin living at New Orleans's Audubon Aquarium of the Americas. When the Aquarium is severely damaged during Hurricane Katrina, many animals are put in peril, including Patience and the other penguins. They must leave their home, and their penguin keeper, until it is restored"--Provided by publisher.

Dyan deNapoli, known as "the Penguin Lady," describes the efforts taken by her, along with 12,500 volunteers from around the world, to save the penguins native to the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, when a massive oil spill in 2000 contaminated the water and home of over forty percent of the world's penguin population.