Happy Feet the penguin is now
aboard the NIWA’s research vessel,
Tangaroa, as of the evening of
August 29th, New Zealand time.
He will stay approximately 4 days
at sea and will then be let free in
an area known for where other
juvenile emperor penguins are.
(or so we hope!)
We miss you Happy Feet...
Photos courtesy of
Being carried onto the ship
His new home for the next 4 days.
All comfy cozy on his belly
with new snow.
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From another HF fan,
Kathleen Johnson shared
one of her favorite quotes
and now one of mine.
From the book,
"The Outermost House"
by Henry Beston.
"We need another and a wiser and
perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals. Remote from universal
nature and living by complicated
artifice, man in civilization surveys
the creature through the glass of
his knowledge and sees thereby a
feather magnified and the whole
image in distortion. We patronize
them for their incompleteness, for
their tragic fate for having taken
form so far below ourselves. And
therein do we err. For the animal
shall not be measured by man."
"In a world older and more complete
than ours, they move finished and
complete, gifted with the extension
of the senses we have lost or never
attained, living by voices we shall
never hear. They are not brethren,
they are not underlings: they are
other nations, caught with ourselves
in the net of life and time, fellow
prisoners of the splendour and travail
of the earth."
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