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
Katowice 25012 Posts
Katowice 25012 Posts
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.
Dude above was joking. Um I'm not the brightest person in the world but killing off native species that naturally prey on another is a bit counter-productive, no?
United States 24768 Posts
On July 17 2009 06:05 minus_human wrote:
On July 17 2009 08:44 BanZu wrote: Show nested quote + On July 17 2009 08:35 redtooth wrote: 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.
Are you stupid? It takes a MUCH MUCH longer time to evolve. Few weeks? More like hundreds of millions of years.
+ Show Spoiler + You gotta train your pokemans.
On July 17 2009 09:22 micronesia wrote: Show nested quote + On July 17 2009 06:05 minus_human wrote:
Clearly they are. The snipers are serving the penguins.
Show nested quote + On July 17 2009 08:44 BanZu wrote: On July 17 2009 08:35 redtooth wrote: 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.
Are you stupid? It takes a MUCH MUCH longer time to evolve. Few weeks? More like hundreds of millions of years.
+ Show Spoiler + You gotta train your pokemans.
I'm pretty sure redtooth wasn't serious lol
ahahah, this is so badass, I hope it works out well for the penguins and that they can get some sleep.
United States 24768 Posts
On July 17 2009 09:23 Steelflight-Rx wrote: Show nested quote + On July 17 2009 09:22 micronesia wrote: On July 17 2009 06:05 minus_human wrote:
Clearly they are. The snipers are serving the penguins.
On July 17 2009 08:44 BanZu wrote: On July 17 2009 08:35 redtooth wrote: 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.
Are you stupid? It takes a MUCH MUCH longer time to evolve. Few weeks? More like hundreds of millions of years.
+ Show Spoiler + You gotta train your pokemans.
I'm pretty sure redtooth wasn't serious lol
neither was banzu if you read the spoiler rofl
This is why i love my country.
Am I the only one that thought this would have been a thread about Hwasin? "red sniper"?
On July 17 2009 06:03 plated.rawr wrote:
I saw this on the BBC RSS at work today, it was worth a smile. This is not going to be used as an anti-poacher measure since poachers directly factor into human economies. Furthermore, the vast majority of humans place greater value on one human life than on one non-human life.
Spenguin
Australia 3316 Posts
EPT
