Thursday 1 July 2021

Without This New Zealand Endangered Penguin Hospital, Birds Would Be ‘Functionally Extinct’

Through cuts, poo, COVID, and “flipper bashing,” New Zealand veterinarians are keeping an endemic penguin species alive on the beautiful South Island. An endangered species, and one of the rarest penguins in the world, the yellow-eyed penguin, or “Hoiho,” which means “noise shouter” in Māori, numbers between 4,000 to 5,000 birds. For years a pair of […]

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