Thursday, August 11, 2011

Lonely penguins given odd sand-sculpture friends


275x250.jpg A group of penguins have been given sand-sculpture friends in a bid to console them after the departure of another group to whom they'd become attached.

Staff at Sea Life Weymouth say their 11 Humboldt penguins recently became friends with a group of Gentoo penguins with which they were temporarily homed.

But when the other penguins moved on to an aquarium in London the penguins became lonely, so bosses called in a artist to create penguin sculptures to keep them friends.

While staff say the nine sand-based Gentoo penguin created by Mark Anderson seem to be doing the trick and that the birds have stopped moping around, we think they'd have to be bird-brained to think they could be real…
275x250.jpg Sea Life boss Craig Dunkerley said: "We really appreciated Mark's gesture," said and whether or not our Humboldt's are fooled by the incredibly lifelike sculptures, they certainly seem to have perked up."

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