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Thread #161842   Message #3848968
Posted By: Gurney
06-Apr-17 - 02:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Can Penguins survive in the wild in UK ?
Subject: RE: BS: Can Penguins survive in the wild in UK ?
As Jack says, there are a couple of New Zealand species that would do fine, and I suspect some South American ones too, provided there was food for them after all those years of Common-Market nets.

The last time I went fishing in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, there was a Little Blue Penguin fishing for itself in the boat's shadow, where some small fish were trying to hide. It knew it was a boat, too, and was eying the humans carefully between dives.
There are often small fish hiding under floating debris. I've even had dolphin feeding the same way. A rare treat.