Press Release – Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium Following World Penguin Day yesterday, the Penguin Keepers from SEA LIFE Kelly Tarltons Aquarium are pleased to announce theyre donating $3,000 to three non-profit organisations that help protect penguins in the wild. Over the past year, the crafty keepers have …
Following World Penguin Day yesterday, the Penguin Keepers from SEA LIFE Kelly Tarlton’s Aquarium are pleased to announce they’re donating $3,000 to three non-profit organisations that help protect penguins in the wild.
Over the past year, the crafty keepers have been creating art with the help of the King and Gentoo penguins and selling their wares in the Aquarium’s retail store.
Monday, 26 April 2021, 4:30 pm
Following
World Penguin Day yesterday, the Penguin Keepers from SEA
LIFE Kelly Tarlton’s Aquarium are pleased to announce
they’re donating $3,000 to three non-profit organisations
that help protect penguins in the wild.
Over the past
year, the crafty keepers have been creating art with the
help of the King and Gentoo penguins and selling their wares
in the Aquarium’s retail store.
The team has
collected black pebbles – which the Gentoo penguins have
previously used to make nests – to create miniature works
of pebble art, often using the birds’ discarded tail
feathers as paintbrushes. The keepers have also framed
Concern at unexplained hoiho deaths
10 Jan, 2021 04:40 PM
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Yellow-eyed penguin chicks are falling ill with an unexplained pneumonia-like sickness. Photo / Supplied
Otago Daily Times
Concern is mounting for an already challenged species as a mysterious sickness kills yellow-eyed penguin chicks.
The Wildlife Hospital Trust manager Jordana Whyte said the unexplained respiratory condition affected hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin) chicks across North Otago, Otago and the Catlins. We don t understand how they are getting it and why it is killing them.
On necropsy, it presented as a type of pneumonia.
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It was cause for concern. If it gets worse next year, for example, we ll be in huge trouble.