Posted on 09/29/2005 4:36:58 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
ONE of Victoria's cutest tourist attractions is up for adoption: the little penguin population of Phillip Island.
For $75, adoptive parents can have a personalised thank you card from their new addition and automatic membership of the Penguin Foundation.
Foundation chairman John Laurie said every cent raised by the adoption program and other donations would be used to help little penguins (formerly known as fairy penguins).
"Although our penguins are healthy and in good numbers, the local penguin population is incredibly fragile and there is still more to be learnt about their behaviour and life cycles," Mr Laurie said.
"Australia's little penguins are part of a delicate ecosystem that is susceptible to threats such as pollution, poor weather, low fish supply or plastic bags."
This doesn't mean proud parents get to take a penguin home.
Instead, the money will be spent on penguin rehabilitation and rescue, restoring and protecting nesting areas, and research.
Hundreds of penguins waddle to shore in a nightly penguin parade that draws about half a million people each year to the Philip Island Nature Parks.
The Penguin Foundation was launched today by Victorian Environment Minister John Thwaites.
For more information visit www.penguinfoundation.org.au.
Perhaps yet another victim of the gay lobby...
Pics.........Please...
$5 says they taste like chicken
Dammit!
Sorry, no pics. You'll have to come down here and see them yourself :)
penguin rehab? they need to knock off the foster's , ay mate?
Lil Tux wants yer money..
...they have not yet been assimilated into the job market. Thus the need for voluntary welfare donations.
That issue was in relationship to a zoo-kept band of all male penguins who, doing what birds do, mate and with many breeds, do so for a lifetime. Most remained unaffiliated among the males while two "mated" and tried to incubate rocks and such, doing their best to fulfill the biological imperative (to reproduce successfully).
Once female penguins were introduced, it took a few seasons but the supposed males-with-other-males opted to pair bond with females. I think this was limited to something like two males only or only a few male pairs altogether, but the last two lost interest in one another and one mated with one of the newly introduced females.
Birds as a species have been studied and studied and studied and it's well known that they pair bond and many for life. That there were only males in this one population means that the males there knew only other males and being motivated to reproduce, did their best to pair-bond within the population available (what anyone, bird or otherwise, would do if they were compelled to reproduce and knew nothing else than a same-sex population).
And, once females were introduced, the pair-bond being what it is among many bird species (nearly impossible to break or modify after it's established, with the exception for some in death of a mate, in which case some also die out of commitment to the deceased mate or wait a few seasons and then find another mate with whom to pair-bond, IF they are still among the reproducing population), anyway, the pair-bond seems to have been strong with the captive penguins and the few males who had pair-bonded with other males waited a season or two and now have begun REpair-bonding with available females, now that they've figured out that reproduction isn't possible with other males and that females, in fact, exist (they were not exposed previously to females).
I'd say it's a triumph of nature and natural behaviors and the whole gay argument using this one captive penguin population has now been shot all to heck. NOTICE that the mainstream media and leftist blogs everywhere have completely ignored this recent development of nature, by the penguins, doing what nature tells them to do, and that is heterosexually pair-bond and with penguins...most is for life.
Thanks for that link...I just spent a few minutes trying to describe the happening.
~:-D
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