Happy Feet (Emperor Penguin)
"Happy Feet" ( English [ˈhæpi fi: t] for Happy Feet ) was the name of a single emperor penguin who stranded in New Zealand in 2011 and attracted worldwide attention. The animal was named after the animated film of the same name . After an extensive rescue operation, the animal was released in the open sea. It has been considered lost since September 9, 2011.
history
A walker discovered the emperor penguin on June 18, 2011 on a beach on the North Island of New Zealand, 3000 kilometers north of its ancestral habitat. The penguin ate large amounts of sand. After two operations and a stay of several weeks at Wellington Zoo , the emperor penguin was stabilized again. With a research ship and accompanied by a team of veterinarians, the penguin was brought to the open sea several hundred kilometers south of New Zealand and released there on September 4, 2011.
From this point on, researchers and the public were able to follow the path of the animal equipped with a tracking device via the Internet. The penguin initially moved in a south-easterly direction. From September 9, 2011 onwards, no more signals could be received from the DF transmitter. Both a technical defect and the possibility that the penguin could have been eaten by a whale or another marine animal were brought into play as possible causes.
Web links
- www.nzemperor.com Internet presence of the transmitter manufacturer Sirtrack for "Happy Feet" ( memento from the Internet Archive of March 15, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Emperor penguin swims from Antarctica to New Zealand . Hamburger Abendblatt, June 21, 2011
- ↑ Radio silence at Kaiserpinguin Happy Feet . Frankfurter Rundschau, September 12, 2011
- ↑ "Happy Feet" remains missing . Hamburger Abendblatt, October 6, 2011