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Mormon women in Australia are knitting tiny sweaters for baby penguins.
The smallest breed of penguins, often known as "fairy" penguins, tend to get caught in oil spills off the coast of Australia, which can destroy their natural oils or even kill them. Doll size, tight-fitting wool sweaters can keep the penguins warm during the rehabilitation process, and "stop them preening and ingesting the poisonous oil," according to The Sydney Morning Herald.
The sweaters improve penguin survival rate to about 98 percent, the paper reported. [...] With the help of Pet Porpoise Pool, an oceanarium in New South Wales, the group was able to rally over 300 knitters and produce 1,800 doll-size sweaters, said a press release from the LDS Church.
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Posted by: Robust McManlyPants at May 3, 2006 07:17 PMGotta love those colors. It's the fashion equivalent of all those marshmallow and maraschino laden LDS delicacies that Teresa Nielsen-Hayden has written about.
Posted by: M/tch M/lls at May 3, 2006 08:09 PMOn Philip Island near Melbourne, they have a nightly 'Penguin Parade'. At dusk, groups of fairie penguins appear in the surf and proceed to waddle up to their rookeries in the dunes. They have stands set up so that they come right by you.
Posted by: Charles Watkins at May 3, 2006 08:56 PMmarshmallow and maraschino laden LDS delicacies
I read that as LSD delicacies first.
Posted by: apostropher at May 3, 2006 10:03 PMWonder if the penguins have garments on under their little sweaters? Next thing you know they'll be packing their tuxes for a mission to Fiji or some such place.
Posted by: shpx.ohfu at May 4, 2006 12:46 AMApos mate
I saw "March of the penguins" the other day, now this.
Cute little buggers, eh?
Posted by: waldo at May 4, 2006 06:23 AM