Chileans Stunned As 1,500 Dead Penguins Wash Ashore
30 March 2009, 6:00 PM. By Camilla Rowan
Residents of Caleta Queule, Chile, found hundreds of dead penguins washed up on their beach last Thursday. Since then, dead penguins have continued to float ashore en masse, with Sunday’s total estimate at around 1,500 over the past four days, but scientists and locals still have no idea why this is happening.
A news clip of the afflicted beach, which looks gray and grim enough without all the dead penguins littering the sand:
The penguins normally migrate from Antarctica to Peru and Chile and some losses are expected from the arduous journey, but they’ve never died in such concentration and numbers before. It’s particularly sad in light of the other recent penguin news item, when hundreds of penguins stranded in Brazil were successfully saved and flown home to a more southern part of Brazil. No such happy ending for these guys.
Four of the penguin corpses were sent to a lab for testing and hopefully the results will give us a clue as to what caused the gruesome mass death.
800 DEAD PENGUINS FOUND IN SOUTHERN CHILE [Patagonia Times]
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This is one of the saddest things ever.
wow what a sad thing this is
Oh God this is sad. I wonder if it’s connected to global warming.
:-O
Its tragic… why this all happens? Guess it has something to do with the global warming and it is really scary…
We humans over-fish the seas’ so much so, it can not sustain wildlife. They either have /caught a bacteria or starved, because of humans raping the world. If it were global W. this would have begun 20+ years ago.