Penguins Invade Scotland
In a chilling development, there have been a spate of penguin sightings near the famed St Andrews golf course. The Animal Uprising™ is staking a claim to take over the crown jewel of golf.
A POSSIBLE answer to the St Andrews penguin mystery landed in the Citizen office on Monday.
In recent weeks, dog walkers on the West Sands have been left rubbing their eyes in amazement at what appeared to be a lone penguin standing looking out to sea.Most were able to get within touching distance of the bird which experts said was more likely to be a guillemot.
Neither the St Andrews Aquarium nor Edinburgh Zoo say they have lost any livestock. St Andrews Aquarium does not have any penguins and representatives from both tourist attractions reckoned the bird would be a guillemot.
This week, photographic evidence of what the bird looked like appeared to prove it was an adult guillemot.
They have the picture, but our highly-trained photo recognition experts do not see all that much resemblance between what they claim is a guillemot and the photos of those birds located over at Wikipedia. In fact, the bird looks just like a penguin. Obviously, the newspaper has gone over to the animals and is trying to suppress the truth. Note that the sentinel penguin was gazing out to sea - obviously watching for the rest of the invasion fleet. Just wait. In a very short time it will be impossible to get a tee time at the St. Andrews course - penguins are not known for being good sports.
By Sylvia, Wednesday, 25 July , 2007 @ 10:04 am
Helped rescue a pair of murres near the marina in San Francisco years ago. They were released from the wildlife repair shop too soon after being caught in an oil spill and one of the pair kept sinking. They mate for life so the spouse was struggling to keep her afloat — it was heartrending.
A ranger and I donned heavy leather gauntlets (they BITE) and waded out in the surf and brought them in, then caged them and sent them back for repairs. The birds had to be able to touch each other through the bars — never seen such an intense bond before or since.