Notice in the following story how the story tellers don't find it unusual that a Penguin from the Antarctic swam 2000 miles out of its range, how this has happened before, how people just want to keep out of its way ('cause the poor thing must be lost... really? It swam 2000 miles out of its way and it's lost?), assume the 'poor dumb animal'(my words) must be lonely...
... on the other hand, I'm proud of them (The New Zealanders) for protecting the Penguin until someone decided to get involved and find out what was wrong. In many parts of the world it would have been killed.
"The lonely emperor penguin that showed up on a New Zealand beach last week is critically ill from eating sand and sticks, veterinarians told TVNZ.
Mal Hackett, penguin keeper at the International Antarctic Centre in Christchurch, thinks the bird swam 2,000 miles from its Antarctic home because it was already sick, and she isn't optimistic about the outcome."
It is a well known fact that Great Apes can recognize themselves in a mirror, thereby proving that they have self-awareness...
It is not a well known fact that some birds can recognize themselves in a mirror as well, thereby proving that some have self-awareness...
It is also well known that Apes use objects as tools to accomplish objectives, that fact is not so well known about birds despite the extremely large body of growing evidence...
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