Brazil's military to airlift penguins back home

 
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:22 pm    Post subject: Brazil's military to airlift penguins back home Reply with quote

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (Reuters) -- Brazil's air force and navy will transport more than 100 penguins to Antarctica next month after the flightless birds were stranded on Rio de Janeiro beaches.

Penguins arrive from the Antarctic Circle on ice floes that melt in the vicinity of Brazil's shore and the birds wash up on Rio beaches every winter. Typically many of the birds are sent to local zoos.

A plane carrying equipment for an Antarctic naval base will take the penguins to Brazil's southernmost region next month, an air force spokesman said on Monday. They will continue their journey on a naval ship, which will release them into the ocean in their Antarctic habitat.

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Nice to read something positive for a change. If they'd landed in China they'd probably be on someones dinner table right quick.

I'm not against the chinese as a whole, but they've pissed me off with their treatment of animals lately and how evident it is in the press they just don't seem to give a damn Sad
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PostPosted: Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That is a good story - nice one.
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