Posted by Francesca Fazey
on June 22, 2009
Johannesburg,
Penguins,
Success story,
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Penguin Tutoring strives to provide personalised tutoring and mentorship. We hand-pick and match a tutor to the exact needs of the family we are assisting. In a South Africa with such a diverse range of cultures, religions, and opinions, we are faced daily with such challenges. However, in our search for the enhancement of education, sometimes unorthodox measures need be put in place. So, we salute our tutors who have bridged cultural and racial divides, and found commonality in learning and education.
Even penguins team up and face adversity and challenges: Just read this warming story of penguins in Germany adopting an abandoned egg, pulblished on cbc.ca:
Keepers at Germany’s Bremerhaven zoo couldn’t get two penguin parents to take care of their egg, so they’re trying an experiment — they gave the egg to a gay male penguin couple.
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Posted by Francesca Fazey
on June 02, 2009
Cape Town,
Penguins,
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In an interesting story released today:
Washington - Scientists looking for lost penguins stumbled upon an effective method: Follow their excrement from space.
In remote Antarctica, about one-and-a-half times bigger than the United States, researchers have been unable to figure out just where colonies of emperor penguins live and if their population is in peril.
It is harder still because emperor penguins, featured in the film March of the Penguins, breed on sea ice, which scientists say will shrink significantly in the future because of global warming.
Because the large penguins stay on the same ice for months, their excrement stains make them stand out from space.
Scientists at the British Antarctic Survey found this out by accident when they were looking at satellite images of their bases.
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