--- 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: 2026-08-04T07:48:29.819Z 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. Honeymoon Suites for Penguins at New England Aquarium ```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":"2026-08-04T07:48:29.819Z","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"}}] ```