Apparently, Australia's wildlife services have added a new way to prevent extinction. + Show Spoiler + The deployment follows the mysterious deaths of nine of the flightless birds over the last two weeks.
The mutilated bodies of the animals, known as fairy penguins, were found in a national park near Sydney harbour.
The main suspects are dogs and foxes. At 40cm tall, the world's smallest penguin species is clearly no match for such aggressive enemies.
To even up the fight, two snipers have been deployed as bodyguards.
They have started night patrols and have instructions to do what it takes to protect these tiny creatures.
They have joined a legion of volunteers, who have also been guarding the birds during the hours of darkness when they are most vulnerable to attack.
Traps have been also been set in a concerted attempt to catch Sydney's penguin killers.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8153168.stm
To even up the fight, two snipers have been deployed as bodyguards.
The thread title had me believing snipers were hired to kill off poachers. I was slightly dissapointed.
penguin<dog<sniper
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Seriously, these two dudes have the best job on the planet right now
next week headline, predators hired prostitute to distract snipers.
hey that is amazing. Who else gets to shoot stuff to protect penguins!!
On July 17 2009 06:01 404.Nitrogen wrote:
This is exaqctly the kind of creativity we need to apply to the economy to com eout of the recession.
On July 17 2009 06:17 Forgottenfrog wrote:
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On July 17 2009 06:17 CharlieMurphy wrote: Show nested quote + On July 17 2009 06:01 404.Nitrogen wrote:
lolol
I wonder how Peta feels about this? I'm gonna send this to my vegan friend and see what she says.
Won't this just begin a penguin hunter/penguin arms race? Before we know it the foxes will hire counter-snipers and then tanks will be involved and before we know it ICBM's are going to be flying.
They should surround the penguin nesting grounds with landmines spider mines obv.
On July 17 2009 08:32 Jonoman92 wrote: landmines spider mines obv.
On July 17 2009 08:35 redtooth wrote: Show nested quote + On July 17 2009 08:32 Jonoman92 wrote: landmines spider mines obv.
so the penguins can't get out and starve to death.
hopefully they will evolve and learn to fly within the next few weeks.
+ Show Spoiler + You gotta train your pokemans.
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