Beached penguins sent by Brazil to US (AFP)

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:01 PM By dwi

RIO DE JANEIRO (AFP) – Brazilian scientists hit dispatched a assemble of around 20 penguins saved from beaches near metropolis de Janeiro terminal year to the United States for an tank aggregation on status change.

"They arrived in beatific information Saturday period in Los Angeles," said Giselda Candiotto, administrator of the Niteroi zoo, which had been caring for the Magellanic penguins.

She said they would be kept in quarantine in Los Angeles before being dispatched to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium in California.

The birds dispatched to California were the survivors from hundreds that washed up on Brazil's shore after a daylong migration from the waters soured Argentina's gray Patagonia region.

Scientists said the penguins, which study schools of fish, hit been migrating boost northerly in past years, mayhap cod to status change. But the longer journey wears on the penguins and they hit become thinner and their accumulation has been declining.

Brazilian environmental authorities began a study terminal year on the changing migration patterns of the penguins.


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