Adorable video of letting rescued penguins free.

[Maraya1969]

Not sure what happened to them yet. I have to read the website.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqBy1TuZURk


Here is their website

http://www.ifaw.org/splash.php

EDIT to add information;

Learn more about the penguins rehabilitation and release

More than 1000 juvenile Magellanic penguins washed-up either dead or dying along the Brazilian coast and as far north as Natal in Rio Grande do Norte, 3000 km north of Sao Paulo at the beginning of August 2008. IFAW immediately deployed a team of penguin rehabilitation experts to assist local animal centers that were han

[pitohui]

1. well we don't know the resolution yet but i have confidence

this species, there is no reason why they can't hit the ground running and be OK once they're back where they need to be

cool video by the way, i had seen a different much shorter one

[Maraya1969]

2. I went to their site and it is hard to maneuver. I want to know how they

got hurt or lost their way. And they probably put those green guards up to keep the people away!

[PeaceNikki]

3. Here you go

http://www.animalrescueblog.org/south_america/index.html

OCTOBER 03, 2008
Lost Penguins Hop On A Flight Home To Southern Brazil
Two months ago more than a thousand juvenile penguins washed up on the shores of northeast Brazil in extremely poor condition. Northeast Brazil is much farther north than their usual 'home' range, some of the penguins were found as far north as Natal in Rio Grande do Norte. This type of unusual event appears to be naturally occurring and has been seen two or three times in the last 20 years.

Media were quick to link this to global warming, but the science to substantiate this claim is not there yet.

According to penguin researcher, Dr. Dee Boersma, there is a flow of warmer water which has caused the juvenile penguins to keep going north, past their usual range where they are unable to find adequate food. There is always a high mortality rate for first year birds, however traveling farther north and given the lack of available food increased the normal mortality rate for this group of penguins even more. Almost all of the penguins found on the beaches in northeastern Brazil were juveniles; starving and in an extremely debilitated state.

Local wildlife groups were alerted to the condition of these penguins and quickly began rescuing them. Instituto Mamíferos Aquáticos was one of the centers in Brazil who made room for the rescued penguins and offered them rehabilitative care at their center in preparation for release. To date, around 850 penguins were rescued. Sadly, many of the other juvenile penguins died on the beach.

[Maraya1969]

4. Thank you for this. I had no idea Penguins lived in South America.

[Critters2]

6. If you've ever seen the movie "Happy Feet", a favorite of my youth group, you may have noticed that

some of the penguins, notably Robin Williams' followers, have Latino accents. This is because they're Humboldt penguins,also known as Peruvian penguins because, well, they breed in Peru (and Chile).

Robin Williams was a rockhopper. Also a South American species.

[mokawanis]

5. Fantastic video

It's good to know there are lots of people out there willing to help.

[applegrove]

7. Sweet!