"Scientists are celebrating the re-colonization of king penguins on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean.
When Macquarie Island was discovered in 1810, it was teeming with king penguins, but by the turn of the century, hundreds of thousands of birds had been slaughtered for blubber oil.
Only a small colony of the birds survived at Lusitania Bay on the island."
by ABC
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Threatened penguin colony rebounds
By: shannond | September 27th, 2009 at 10:23pm
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