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More than 500 penguins found dead of beaches of south Brazil

Saturday, July 14th 2012 - 00:54 UTC
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More than 500 penguins have been found dead on beaches of Brazil's southern Rio Grande do Sul state, authorities said Friday. Read full article

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  • Marcos Alejandro

    “More than 500 penguins found dead of beaches of south Brazil”
    MercoStanley says.

    I say 5 000 000 penguins were found dead on beaches of Malvinas and the rich elite there didn't care.

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • agent999

    @1
    Plonker !

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 03:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steve_L

    Marcos, you seem to be unaware of what realistic penguin populations are. Magellanic penguins: approx 1 million birds. Gentoo: 314,000 pairs (early 1990s). Rockhopper penguins: 1.1 million pairs (after a decrease of 24% in the past 30 yrs). Bearing in mind that these are global populations, not just Falkland numbers, it is hard to see where your 5 million dead penguins came from.

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 05:42 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Ken Ridge

    Marcos you really are a 100% idiot, you should take a break from your malvinist addiction, it's not good fro your brain cell.

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 10:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lou Spoo

    @1

    5 000 000 dead Argentines and nobody would care. Penguins? That's a different matter!

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    I think we can see the evil hand of CFK here. Kidnapping penguins and throwing them ashore on Dilma's beaches as a lunch “offering”. Can you not imagine Dilma munching one or two while she waits for her roast Paraguayan. No doubt she will have been introduced to the delicacy by CFK who enjoys the odd penguin whilst waiting to watch the flypast of dissident-dropping helicopters!

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 01:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • JohnN

    Marcos, if you think that Mike Bingham (Organization for the Conservation of Penguins) has anything to say about the 500 dead Brazilian penguins, ask Bingham, although he might be more focused on Chile's penguin egg-eating rat problem that MercoPress now reports about. Seems that a lot of Bingham's Falklands.net website just rehashes his now 10 year old legal issues he had with FIG.

    Reference:
    Mike Bingham: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bingham

    Humboldt penguins threatened by eggs and chicks eating rats:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bingham

    Organization for the Conservation of Penguins, contact form:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Bingham

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    Same thing happened last year (and the year before, and the year ..?).
    See last year's posting for same comments.

    Jul 14th, 2012 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ExPat 1987

    7 JohnN

    Marcos is Mike Bingham....... and was very happy to call the Falkland Island by their correct name until he saw found to be a total fraud from start to finish.

    Jul 16th, 2012 - 11:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0

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