This just isnt right.....

seeker007nmss · #1 02-02-2006, 10:18 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/e...re/4547722.stm

seeker007nmss · #2 02-02-2006, 10:20 PM

update:

According to The Times Online, BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler has contributed £5,000 (approx. $8,700) towards a reward being offered for the return of Toga, the missing baby penguin.

No trace of the three-month-old bird, said to be worth about £1,000, has been found since he went missing more than a week ago from the Amazon World zoo on the Isle of Wight.

Kath Bright, the zoo's manager, pleaded for Toga's return Sunday (Dec. 25), adding that he could now be in the hands of an unscrupulous collector. What started as a £1,000 reward offered by the zoo has now multiplied. The total includes a £10,000 anonymous pledge.

Bright said: "If Toga was stolen to order by a professional then of course there is a chance we will never hear anything of him again. It is a fact that rare and exotic animals are stolen to order, so why not Toga? Having said that, the reward money is so much now it might just change things and encourage someone to come forward."

Meanwhile, parents Oscar and Kyala appear to be preparing to lay more eggs, says the zoo.

The couple were showing signs of nesting and had begun 'courting', said manager Kath Bright.

She added that zoo staff were still following up all leads over Toga's disappearence and were determined to find out what happened.

"I don't think we will give up. We will follow up every phone call we get - which is what we have been doing over Christmas," she said.

seeker007nmss · #3 02-02-2006, 10:23 PM

Penguin parents who lost chick have new egg.

Zoo installs dosed circuit cameras and motion sensors around family

LONDON - The parents of Toga — the infant penguin whose disappearance last month was followed around the world — have laid a new egg, British zookeepers said this week, prompting dozens of well-wishers to send congratulatory e-mails.

Toga, a 3-month-old Jacka** penguin, disappeared in December from Amazon World, on the Isle of Wight in southern England. Despite scores of reported sightings and an on-air confession from a man who called a television station to admit to stealing the bird, Toga has not been found and is presumed dead.
Zoo manager Kath Bright said staff discovered last week that Toga's parents had laid a new egg.

"It's put a smile back on everyone's face at the zoo, people were very down after Toga went missing," he said.

Penguins Kyala and Oscar, both around 3 years old, will share hatching duties for the next 40 days. A penguin chick is expected to emerge in late February.

Owner Derek Curtis said the zoo may hold a contest to name the new chick, but would wait three weeks to assure it was healthy. "We don't want to count our chickens before they hatch, so to speak," he said.

Zoo officials have installed closed circuit television cameras and motion sensors to make sure that Toga's expected sibling remains safely with his parents, who are a rare breed of penguin found on the southern coast of Africa.