{"id":26813,"date":"2009-07-16T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/07\/16\/snipers-to-kill-penguin-killer\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T10:45:12","slug":"snipers-to-kill-penguin-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/16\/snipers-to-kill-penguin-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Snipers To Kill Penguin Killers in Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-866753e13a3444ab3c9153f339b097e1-Little_Blue_Penguin_Eudyptula_minor.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-866753e13a3444ab3c9153f339b097e1-Little_Blue_Penguin_Eudyptula_minor.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Little_Blue_Penguin_(Eudyptula_minor)_-Adelaide_Zoo.jpg\"><em>Potograph source<\/em><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The deployment follows the mysterious deaths of nine of the flightless birds over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The mutilated bodies of the animals, known as fairy penguins, were found in a national park near Sydney harbour.<\/p>\n<p>The main suspects are dogs and foxes. At 40cm tall, the world&#8217;s smallest penguin species is clearly no match for such aggressive enemies. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am shocked.  SHOCKED! That the Fairy Penguin (aka the &#8220;little penguin, <em>Eudyptula minor<\/em>) is the smallest species of penguin.  I thought that honor went to the adelie penguin (<em>Pygoscelis adeliae<\/em>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/8153168.stm\"><br \/>\nStory source, which has a video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia. Potograph source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27,4828,239,4829],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Yt","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}