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Acknowledgments
Thank you to Steve Sarro, Seana Flossic, Heather Urquhart, and Justin Brackett for providing sup-
plemental information for this chapter, to Stephanie Costelow and Laurie Conrad for supporting
this work, and to my colleagues at SeaWorld and beyond for their dedication to penguin care.
Special thanks to Frank Todd who achieved an impossible dream.
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