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The legendary musician died on Sunday after a battle with
cancer. He had released his last album, "Blackstar," on his
birthday on Friday.
Bowie the penguin hatched Friday making it the first birth of
2016 at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. The zoo solicited
names on Facebook with "Bowie" and "Elvis" the most popular
suggestions since Jan. 8 also is Elvis Presley's birthday.
The penguin keepers chose the name Bowie because the zoo already
had a king penguin named Elvis.
The new Bowie is one of the zoo's 33 members of a species known
as "little penguins" - the world's smallest penguin species. The
Cincinnati Zoo's colony of little penguins - also known as blue
or fairy penguins - is the largest in the United States.
Little penguins, unlike king penguins, prefer milder
temperatures so visitors are not likely to see Bowie and the
rest of the colony until spring, said bird keeper Jennifer
Gainer.
(Reporting by Kim Palmer in Cleveland; Editing by Mary
Wisniewski and Bill Trott)
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