DOZENS OF PENGUINS at the San Francisco Zoo and Gardens received their annual physical exam Thursday, getting their health checked from head to toe.

San Francisco Zoo is home to one of the largest colonies of Magellanic penguins in North America. Magellanic penguins are native to Argentina and Chile, and the zoo has 51 of the penguins that live in 200-foot-long pool with a rocky island in the center known as “Penguin Island.”

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.