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Tue, Sep 05, 2006

Flightless Birds Get First-Class Treatment

Penguins On A Plane?

What happens when you cross a major movie hit from last summer -- "March Of The Penguins" -- with the current buzzworthy (or, as most critics have determined, hiss-worthy) film "Snakes On A Plane?"

Well, depending on your tolerance for "cute"... it might be something along the lines of "Penguins on a Plane".

The New Zealand Herald reports 18 Little Blue penguins were flown from Napier's Marineland, on New Zealand's North Island, on Monday. All were rescued after they were injured in one way or another... and were heading for new lives at the International Antarctic Center in Christchurch.

The flightless birds will be part of the center's New Zealand Little Blue Penguin Encounter... a project whose name conjures up images of sharing of feelings, hug therapy, and soothing teas. (Or maybe that's just us.)

Program director Richard Benton says the birds are fortunate, as they now have a second chance after being injured in the wild.

Not a bad flight, all-in-all... for birds who, by their very nature... were never meant to be airborne. 

FMI: www.iceberg.co.nz/penguins.asp

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