Pocket Penguins
By California Academy of Sciences
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Description
Warning: Cute alert! Pocket Penguins, streaming in real-time from the California Academy of Sciences, provides an intimate view into our live African penguin exhibit. Watch the birds swim, dive, flirt, nest and relax from any one of three live webcams. Listen in as Academy biologists answer questions from visitors during meal time, daily at 10:30am and 3:00pm PST.
If you enjoy this free application, please consider making a donation of $5 via SMS to help the Academy in its mission to explore, explain and protect the natural world. Text PENGUINS to 20222.
Disclaimer: Please note that this app depends largely on your wireless network’s quality of service and data rates may apply. A Wi-Fi connection is recommended.
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Customer Reviews
Strangely soothing...
It's kind of like having a tamagotchi. You can take it out of your pocket and check it out anytime!! The only difference being your looking at living creatures and you don't have to feed them or clean up their poop :)
So fun!
This is the cutest thing!!! Once I turned it on at like 9 at night and a couple of the penguins were going at it. Lol. I shut it off cause I felt like a perv. But its nature! It's natural!!! Lol!!
Love it! :)
Adorable penguins, I love watching them!! My only complaint is that I wish there were sound!!! There was one time I could hear the person cleaning the tank, but then the sound went out again... Even if it's just water, I wish I could hear it.
Also of course being in the wild living in a natural environment is best, but aren't they endangered?? Being in captivity helps maintain the population right? I definitely don't think they have sad lives... also I think it's great to raise awareness about them plus it lets people donate & help.
So I think it's like a win for everyone, including the penguins...
- Free
- Category: Education
- Released: Jul 05, 2011
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 30.4 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Seller: California Academy of Sciences
- © California Academy of Sciences
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad.Requires iOS 4.0 or later.
