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Wayward pengiuns fly home
The 373 young Magellanic penguins, which were among about 1,600 emaciated birds that showed up in locations hundreds of miles north of their normal feeding grounds in July, were rehabilitated by animal welfare groups before being flown 1,550 miles to the southern coast of Brazil in a Brazilian air force cargo plane, CNN reported Wednesday. About half of the wayward birds survived their ordeal.
"We are overjoyed to see these penguins waddle back to the ocean and have a second chance at life," said Dr. Valeria Ruoppolo, a veterinarian with the International Fund for Animal Welfare, which coordinated the rescue.
Experts said changes in currents and wind temperatures likely confused the young penguins and contributed to them wandering too far north.
Copyright 2008 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/09/2008
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10-13-2008 13:07
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Maybe those were the dumb penguins that nature was trying to kill off and preserve just the smart ones. Now you've added dumb genes back into the general populations and it'll take some time for the smart penguins to weed them out again.
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