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> \ufeffDear PenguinPromises
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>
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> The penguins have reached the coast of Brazil and will be having a great time.
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> The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and the water is crystal clear. Catching
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> fish is easy for Promises with such good sunshine and clear water.
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>
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> When Promises is home in the colony raising chicks, just one type of fish makes
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> up 90% of the diet. The common name for those fish is Sprats, and the scientific
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> name is “Sprattus fuegensis”. The reason that the penguins almost exclusively
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> catch sprats here in the south is because they are very common in Patagonia,
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> and live in large groups, called shoals.
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>
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> Because sprats live in shoals, the penguins are able to catch them quickly once
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> they have located the shoal. The penguins swim around the shoal eating one fish
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> after another, and can quickly catch enough to take back to the nest. Of course
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> the shoals have millions of fish, and the penguins only eat a tiny fraction,
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> otherwise living in shoals would make no sense for the fish.
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>
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> By contrast, fish that don’t live in shoals would take ages to catch in the open
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> ocean. The penguins would have to look for them one fish at a time, which would
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> take too long when there are hungry chicks back home waiting to be fed.
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>
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> In Brazil there are different types of fish to eat. Penguins are not picky about
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> their food, and Promises will eat almost any fish that is small enough to be
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> swallowed whole. Penguins do not have teeth, so they cannot chew their food.
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> They must swallow the fish whole, and that means that the fish have to be the
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> right size. For Promises, the size of the fish is more important than what species
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> of fish it is.
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>
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> In Brazil the penguins eat many kinds of fish that are not found in Patagonia,
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> including solitary fish that do not live in shoals. The penguins now live in
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> the water all the time, so they do not have to waste time traveling to and from
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> a nest each day to find the fish. They also have no chicks to feed and only need
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> to catch enough food to feed themselves, so there is no rush. At this time of
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> year Promises can easily catch enough food feeding on solitary fish that are
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> not in shoals.
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>
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> The penguins are now spread out from southern Brazil to north of Rio de Janeiro.
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> The Rio Times, which is the local newspaper in Rio de Janeiro, published an article
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> saying that the “2021 Penguin Season” has begun. The article talks about the
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> penguins arriving in the area on their winter migration.
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>
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> Penguins have no need to come ashore at this time of year. They have everything
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> they need out at sea. Most people living in Brazil have never seen a penguin
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> because the penguins stay away from the coast in open water. If the newspaper
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> had not written the article, many people in Rio de Janeiro would be unaware that
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> there are so many penguins just a short distance off the coast.
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>
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> If you wish to read the article you can find it at:
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> https:\/\/riotimesonline.com\/brazil-news\/nosubscription\/2021-penguin-season-begins-on-brazils-southern-and-southeastern-coasts\/<\/a>
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>
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> However the article is very misleading, talking about poor hungry penguins moving
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> into an area where it is difficult to find enough food. That is simply untrue.
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> Whilst it is true that the waters around Brazil are not as rich in fish as Patagonia,
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> the penguins’ needs are also very different at this time of year as I mentioned
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> above. With no chicks to feed, the penguins only need a few fish a day to be
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> well fed.
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>
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> It is little use spending the winter in the south where there are more fish,
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> when the days there are too short and gloomy for Promises to be able to see the
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> fish deep underwater. That is why the penguins migrate to Brazil each year.
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>
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> The penguins swim a long way to leave the rich waters of Patagonia and spend
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> the winter off the coast of Brazil. They would not do that if Brazil was unsuitable
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> for their needs. The writer of the Rio Times article has assumed that all the
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> penguins in Brazil are in the same condition as those that get washed ashore,
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> which is not the case. To be fair it is just a newspaper, and does not pretend
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> to be a scientific journal.
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>
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> With over four million penguins along the Brazilian coastline, it is not surprising
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> that some penguins will get sick and die, but very few of those are adult penguins.
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> The adult penguins find food easily in Brazil and do not loose weight. On the
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> contrary, the adults have a very restful time in Brazil and return home fatter
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> and healthier than at any other time of year.
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>
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> The penguins that the article refers to are eight month old juvenile penguins
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> that were born last year. These penguins are not underweight because of a lack
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> of food in the area. These young juveniles are under-weight because they still
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> lack the strength and speed of the adults, and are not fast enough to catch fish
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> easily. The first year is always tough for these juveniles. Most survive their
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> first year and go on to become strong and healthy, but sadly some do not make
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> it and get washed up ashore.
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>
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> In Brazil there are beach patrols that look for sick and under-weight penguins.
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> They help these penguins by giving them food and letting them rest for a couple
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> of weeks in their penguin hospital, before releasing them back into the sea.
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> I attach a photo of one of these people helping a juvenile penguin. The lady
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> in the photo is part of the Santos Basin Beach Monitoring Project.
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>
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> The penguin in the photo is an 8 month old Magellanic penguin, and is healthy
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> except for being underweight. After a week or two in hospital with plenty of
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> fish, he will be released back to sea. The photo is part of the Rio Times article
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> which also promotes the valuable work being done by the Santos Basin Project.
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>
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> The penguins will remain in Brazil for a few more weeks, and then Promises will
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> start heading back home. Back here in the empty colony the days are starting
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> to get longer again, so spring is on the way. Before long it will be time for
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> Promises to begin another season of chick-rearing.
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>
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> I will write to you again in a few weeks, by which time Promises will be heading
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> back home.
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>
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> Kind regards, Mike
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>
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