When a female seahorse is ready to lay her eggs, she squirts as many as 600 eggs into the male's pouch. The male provides the eggs with all the oxygen and nutrients. Six weeks later he delivers young by shooting them out of his pouch.
Knitters Deck Penguins out Against Oil
Knitters Deck Penguins out Against Oil Volunteers from around the world have been
knitting tiny woollen sweaters to protect a rare colony of
Australian penguins against oil spills. The fairy penguins, the
smallest species of pengins (standing 40cm tall, and weighing one
kilo.), are found only in Australia and New Zealand, and live on
three islands near a shipping route off of the coast of Tasmania.
The area is often fouled by oil slicks, which can kill the birds.
When they preen themselves, they swallow the toxic oil, which
sticks to their feathers. The sweaters are being put on the
oil-soaked birds to keep them from ingesting the oil until they can
properly be cleaned. "The penguins are not very happy about [the
sweaters], but they cover them from neck to ankle which stops them
preening themselves and ingesting poisonous oil." THURSDAY, MAY 24, 2001
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