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What species of penguin is Lovelace from Happy Feet?

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1. rockhopper
2. He is either a 'Macaroni Penguin' or a 'Rockhopper Penguin'. Here are two links with picures of each. http://www.coolantarctica.com/gallery/penguins/penguin20.htm http://www.adelie.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/PhotoIndex/EUD_PICS.htm I've looked at both and still can't decide.
3. erect-Crested penguin
4. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Galaxy/1574/peng14.html rockhooper.. in the movie he loves rocks.. Rockhopper Penguins Lovelace, the dramatic and showy guru of the Adelie colony with a six-pack ring around his neck is a Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes sp.). A little smaller than the adelies, rockhoppers are divided into three subspecies: southern, northern, and eastern. None of them breed on the Antarctic continent: rockhopper colonies exist in the Falkland Islands, Argentina and Chile, and on islands in the south Atlantic, in the southern Indian Ocean, and near New Zealand. Rockhoppers breed in huge colonies, in rugged gullies near both deep ocean water and a fresh water source. Rockhopper Penguins eats crustaceans, fish, and squid. Of the three species featured in Happy Feet, Rockhopper penguins are the ones most affected by human activities and declines in some colonies have been linked to overfishing. Fishing is not the only threat however: toxic red tide, egg harvesting, and climate change have also had an impact. The species is now listed as globally threatened.