--- title: Honeymoon Suites for Penguins at New England Aquarium description: Biologists hope privacy will encourage endangered African penguins to breed canonical: https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/ author: Eliza Gray article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-18T18:05:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:18:53.542Z og:title: These Endangered Penguins Are Getting 'Honeymoon Suites' og:description: Biologists hope privacy will encourage endangered African penguins to breed og:url: https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: These Endangered Penguins Are Getting 'Honeymoon Suites' twitter:description: Biologists hope privacy will encourage endangered African penguins to breed twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # These Endangered Penguins Are Getting 'Honeymoon Suites' ## Video: Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life [Watch (HLS stream): Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8) (4:03)  _Published 2014-03-12. Conservationists and scientists have a saying, "extinction is forever." But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to "DE-extinction is forever."_ by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Apr 18, 2015 6:05 PM UTC by [Eliza Gray](https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/) ## Eliza Gray Apr 18, 2015 6:05 PM UTC Things are about to get a little racy between the animals at the New England Aquarium. Aquarium experts are building “honeymoon suites” for eight pairs of endangered African penguins, as a way of encouraging them to breed more chicks, the[ Associated Press](http://abcnews.go.com/Weird/wireStory/england-aquarium-breeding-extinct-penguin-species-30414229) reports. The aquarium hopes to grow the population of the birds, which are expected to be extinct in the wild by 2025. The honeymoon suites will be plastic igloo-like homes and private nooks built off of the main exhibit to protect the penguins’ modesty from the prying eyes of the aquarium’s visitors. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/"},"headline":"These Endangered Penguins Are Getting 'Honeymoon Suites'","datePublished":"2015-04-18T18:05:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:18:53.542Z","description":"Biologists hope privacy will encourage endangered African penguins to breed","url":"https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eliza Gray","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eliza-gray/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/","name":"These Endangered Penguins Are Getting 'Honeymoon Suites'"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Waking the Dead: Bringing Extinct Species Back to Life","description":"Conservationists and scientists have a saying, \"extinction is forever.\" But soon biologists will clone long-gone animals in the hope to redefine that axiom to \"DE-extinction is forever.\"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7mURxfr4/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-03-12T14:27:23.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7mURxfr4.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/","duration":"PT4M3S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3827483/penguins-honeymoon-suites-aquarium/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```