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Subject: Swimming penguins baffle the experts
Calif. Zookeepers Perplexed by Penguins
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20030116/325penguins.jpg
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO -- A few penguins swimming leisurely at the San Francisco Zoo is nothing new. But dozens of them doing laps in unison for hours has zookeepers perplexed.
"We've lost complete control," said Jane Tollini, the zoos penguin keeper. "It's a free-for-all in here. After 18 years of doing this job, these birds are making mincemeat of me."
It all started in November when six newcomer Magellannic penguins, formerly of Sea World in Aurora, Ohio, were brought in.
Since then the penguin pool at the San Francisco Zoo has been a daily frenzy of circle swimming by all of the 52 birds at once.
The penguins start swimming in circles early in the day and rarely stop until they stagger out of the pool at dusk.
The six penguins from Ohio started it all, Tollini said, apparently convincing the others to join them for the watery daily circuit.
"I can't figure out how the Aurora penguins communicated and changed the minds of the other 46," Tollini said.
Some penguin experts point to the highly social animals as being open to new ideas fostered by newcomers in to the zoo's so-called Penguin Island.
"Penguins are extraordinarily social birds," said Christina Slager, associate curator at Monterey Bay Aquarium. She has studied Magellanics in the wild in Patagonia and Chile.
"And they're very, very inquisitive. If you combine those facts and put in a new stimulus, like the six new penguins, they have to check it out."
Aquatic biologist Pam Schaller of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco described it in more matter-of-fact terms.
"Genetically, they're designed to swim," Schaller said. "I'd be more amazed if the six had learned to do something not in penguin nature and showed the other 46 how to do it - like if the birds were trained to jump through a hoop."
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Calif. Zookeepers Perplexed by Penguins
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/dayart/20030116/325penguins.jpg
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO -- A few penguins swimming leisurely at the San Francisco Zoo is nothing new. But dozens of them doing laps in unison for hours has zookeepers perplexed.
"We've lost complete control," said Jane Tollini, the zoos penguin keeper. "It's a free-for-all in here. After 18 years of doing this job, these birds are making mincemeat of me."
It all started in November when six newcomer Magellannic penguins, formerly of Sea World in Aurora, Ohio, were brought in.
Since then the penguin pool at the San Francisco Zoo has been a daily frenzy of circle swimming by all of the 52 birds at once.
The penguins start swimming in circles early in the day and rarely stop until they stagger out of the pool at dusk.
The six penguins from Ohio started it all, Tollini said, apparently convincing the others to join them for the watery daily circuit.
"I can't figure out how the Aurora penguins communicated and changed the minds of the other 46," Tollini said.
Some penguin experts point to the highly social animals as being open to new ideas fostered by newcomers in to the zoo's so-called Penguin Island.
"Penguins are extraordinarily social birds," said Christina Slager, associate curator at Monterey Bay Aquarium. She has studied Magellanics in the wild in Patagonia and Chile.
"And they're very, very inquisitive. If you combine those facts and put in a new stimulus, like the six new penguins, they have to check it out."
Aquatic biologist Pam Schaller of the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco described it in more matter-of-fact terms.
"Genetically, they're designed to swim," Schaller said. "I'd be more amazed if the six had learned to do something not in penguin nature and showed the other 46 how to do it - like if the birds were trained to jump through a hoop."
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i think i see a few royal penguins and maybe a newbie in there
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We're always hearing about lost dogs and cats traveling hundreds of miles to get home. There are also cases of individual seals, turtles, dolphins, and other sea animals returning to the same places year after year after year.
The six penguins from Ohio are trying to swim back home. They know they are in a different place, probably don't like it, but have no idea that getting there is impossible.
As for the other 46, they probably figure if Ohio is so great the new guys will swim forever to get back there, it must be a much better place to be. ;) :D
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We're always hearing about lost dogs and cats traveling hundreds of miles to get home. There are also cases of individual seals, turtles, dolphins, and other sea animals returning to the same places year after year after year.
The six penguins from Ohio are trying to swim back home. They know they are in a different place, probably don't like it, but have no idea that getting there is impossible.
As for the other 46, they probably figure if Ohio is so great the new guys will swim forever to get back there, it must be a much better place to be. ;) :D
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That's sad. Poor dumb penguins... :'(
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Good thing that weren't from Miami, propably would have been a story involving car jacking penguins. :o
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That's sad. Poor dumb penguins... :'(
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Okay...somebody whack this guy....
Steve, buddy...one day the penguins will come for you...oh yes they will...there's nowhere to hide...they find you...you may think you can hide but NOOOOOOOOOO!!
Muahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Okay...somebody whack this guy....
Steve, buddy...one day the penguins will come for you...oh yes they will...there's nowhere to hide...they find you...you may think you can hide but NOOOOOOOOOO!!
Muahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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doo bee, doo bee doo
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It's the penguin military training to take over the world. :o
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Are they swimming clockwise or counter-clock? May be there's some strange Coriolis force at work here. Or perhaps they're playing Round and Round the Garden ???
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It's the penguin military training to take over the world. :o
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Exactly!! It's penguin SEALS!!! ;D
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Exactly!! It's penguin SEALS!!! ;D
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Thanks for making me spit my drink all over my keyboard! ;) ;D
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So, the penquins are now taking over the world. Should we be afraid or since was are penguins-does that mean we will be saved? What should we do to prepare ourselves? Stock up on fish?
Cat
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Maybe they are trying to make a whirlpool ???
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If the Penguins do attack we should be able to at least out run the little waddlers. ;D
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lol