New Zealand Penguin Rescuers Need Knitters
10/19/2011
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| Cute just got cuter. Imagine this little guy in a nice cable cardigan or an argyle crewneck. Photo: Chris Turner |
The ongoing and devastating
As Grist.org reports (with a fantastic photo), when penguins are rescued from the waters, they can’t be cleaned right away. Rather than put them through a stressful scrub, rescuers have been dressing the little guys up in woolly warm sweaters. This keeps them from attempting to preen and swallowing toxic oil.
This isn’t a first time fix. When the Tasmanian Conservation Trust requested “penguin jumpers” a decade ago they received an overwhelming bounty of knits.
The stockpile came in handy, particularly in the current 350 ton spill, in which more than 1,000 sea birds have already perished.
The sweaters-for-rescued-penguins request was also first put out by
Interested knitters can take a look at patterns and instructions from Skeinz in
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| Photo: Phillip Island Nature Parks, www.penguins.org.au |
The little blue penguin, formerly the fairy penguin, does live up to the name. At about two pounds in weight, it's the world's smallest and only blue-feathered penguin.
They're also just plain adorable.
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We should stop the oil spills and go away from fossil fuels.. then we wouldn't have to knit adorable little sweaters and more of these beautiful birds would live!
But I am going to knit. I just wish it wasn't necessary... our lands, waters, sea and animal life are being destroyed by these oil spills.. let's make progress in halting the destruction!!!
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and they also wear vests and gloves, though they do not seem to appreciate human adornments:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSxCT1Faw6k
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