The Detroit Zoo’s massive penguin center has reopened to the public more than two years after it was shuttered to repair faulty waterproofing
King penguins walk at the Polk Penguin Conservation Center at the Detroit Zoo in Royal Oak, Mich., Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022. The Detroit Zoo's massive penguin center has reopened to the public more than two years after it was shuttered to repair faulty waterproofing. Visitors were welcomed inside the Polk Penguin Conservation Center this week for the first time since the 33,000-square-foot facility closed in 2019. ROYAL OAK, Mich.
“The community has been waiting for this to come back for a long time,” Hayley Murphy, the Detroit Zoological Society's director and CEO, said during an interview at the center. “We are so happy to welcome everybody back. The penguins are loving it, the staff is loving it, the volunteers.”and was an immediate hit, featuring an underwater gallery and two acrylic tunnels where visitors could watch four species of penguins swim above and around them.
The penguins were sent back to their old habitat at the nearby Penguinarium, but that facility was not open to visitors. The tuxedoed birds were returned to the Polk Center last year, and it reopened to visitors on Valentine's Day. The delay in reopening was lengthened in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Murphy said.
Van Dam said some of the penguins are as enthused to see the visitors as their human friends are to see them.
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