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As a species, as humans, we like to say penguins are really cute, therefore, leopard seals eat them, so leopard seals are ugly and bad.
Why else would she release these penguins at me?
So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins, she'd get these other penguins and bring them slowly towards me, bobbing like this, and she'd let them go.
And then so she realized I couldn't catch live ones, so she brought me dead penguins.
Now I've got four or five penguins floating around my head, and I'm just sitting there shooting away.
She would not stop trying to feed me penguins.
On June 23, 2000, a ship named the Treasure sank off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa, spilling 1,300 tons of fuel, which polluted the habitats of nearly half the entire world population of African penguins.
And exactly six years and three days earlier, on June 20, 1994, a ship named the Apollo Sea sank near Dassen Island, oiling 10,000 penguins, half of which died.
And soon, nearly 20,000 penguins were covered with this toxic oil.
We have thousands of oiled penguins and thousands of willing but completely inexperienced volunteers.
Last week, a 10-year-old girl asked me: "What did it feel like when you first walked into that building and saw so many oiled penguins?"
Penguins are very vocal birds and really, really noisy, so I expected to walk into this building and be met with this cacophony of honking and braying and squawking.
Room two had more than 4,000 oiled penguins in it.
Because we all knew that just six years earlier, half as many penguins had been oiled and rescued, and only half of them had survived.
So would it be humanly possible to save this many oiled penguins?
But what gave us hope were these incredibly dedicated and brave volunteers, three of whom here are force-feeding penguins.
And what you should know about African penguins is that they have razor-sharp beaks.
And before long, our bodies were covered head to toe with these nasty wounds inflicted by the terrified penguins.
And the main thing learned during the Apollo Sea rescue in '94 was that most of those penguins had died due to the unwitting use of poorly ventilated transport boxes and trucks, because they just had not been prepared to deal with so many oiled penguins at once.
And as a result, during the Treasure rescue, just 160 penguins died during the transport process, as opposed to 5,000.
Something else learned during the Apollo rescue was how to train the penguins to take fish freely from their hands, using these training boxes.
The first penguins to make that transition to free feeding were the ones that had a metal band on their wing from the Apollo Sea spill six years earlier.
So penguins learn from previous experience, too.
So all of those penguins had to have the oil meticulously cleaned from their bodies.
So what happened to those 20,000 oiled penguins?
After half a million hours of grueling volunteer labor, more than 90 percent of those oiled penguins were successfully returned to the wild.
And we know from follow-up studies that they have lived just as long as never-oiled penguins, and bred nearly as successfully.
My mission as The Penguin Lady is to raise awareness and funding to protect penguins.
But why should any of you care about penguins?
And simply put: if penguins are dying, it means our oceans are dying.
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