Using Science For The Ultimate Good: Saving Tiny Penguin Chicks

The critically-endangered African penguin is going through some bad times lately because of commercial fishing – but science to the rescue! Let this adorable animation teach you about how hand-raising tiny baby penguins can save a species. And then, how can I sign up to be a tiny baby penguin handler? Thanks.

Just don’t do it like this guy:

(via American Museum of Natural History)

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Sam Maggs

Sam Maggs is a writer and televisioner, currently hailing from the Kingdom of the North (Toronto). Her first book, THE FANGIRL'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY will be out soon from Quirk Books. Sam’s parents saw Star Wars: A New Hope 24 times when it first came out, so none of this is really her fault.

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