Lost Penguin Loses Signal
A three-year-old Emperor penguin nicknamed Happy Feet washed onto a New Zealand beach in June after taking a wrong turn and heading away from his home in Antarctica. After a public rehabilitation, the zoo caring for the bird attached a tracking device to him and released him back into the wild on September 4.
After barely over a week the sensor company lost the signal, causing many of Happy Feet’s worldwide fans to wonder if he had become a happy meal for a large predator that feasts on penguins.
Others are hopeful that the signal will be recovered and the tracking will resume.
Colin Miskelly who advised on the penguin’s treatment says, “It is unlikely that we will ever know what caused the transmissions to cease, but it is time to harden up to the reality that the penguin has returned to the anonymity from which he emerged.”
You can follow the trail of Happy Feet. Last time he surfaced and sent his location to the satellite following him he was heading in the right direction, south toward Antarctica.
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