The article says that the penguin was photographed. Are pictures of the
Alaska penguin available on the web?

David
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David M. Mark
Amherst, New York (near Buffalo; home location)
dmark at geog.buffalo.edu
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On Thu, 1 Aug 2002, Sharron Huffman wrote:

> From today's Ketchikan Daily News:
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> > =91=91Sure enough there was the little guy wobbling around on deck. Or=
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> > actually it was kind of cowering over by the railing. I wouldn=92t have=
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> > believed it if I hadn=92t seen it with my own eyes.=92=92
> > The crew began trying to figure out how to get the penguin back in the=
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> > water.
> > =91=91Anytime we got real close to it, it just wanted to snap at us to=
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> > protect itself,=92=92 he said.
> > After about a half hour, the penguin calmed down enough so that one of=
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> > the crew could pick it up and throw it overboard. The penguin surfaced=
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> > about 50 yards away.
> > Dee Boersma, a professor of zoology at the University of Washington,=20
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> > possible the penguin came to Alaska waters by boat from Peru or Chile,=
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> > where the birds reside.
> > =91=91It seems highly unlikely they swam up here,=92=92 Boersma said. =
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> > get moved. It=92s quite possible I suppose that it got on somebody=92s =
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> > and they brought it up from off the coast.=92=92
> > Three penguins were also sighted off Vancouver Island in 1978. Since=20
> > the birds live to an average of 30 years, it is possible they are the=
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> > same penguins, said Boersma. There also have been lots of reports of=20
> > penguins in British Columbia.
> > A penguin could survive in southeast Alaska for some time as long as it=
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> > stays in the water, she said.
> > =91=91If you=92ve got a lot of herring around there, he=92ll probably d=
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> > fine until he tries to go to nest on one of those islands because one=
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> > of the problems for these guys will be predators. And so, bears =97 the=
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> > would be happy to eat any penguins that you have around.=92=92
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> Go to http://www.ketchikandailynews.com/news2.shtml#1028190865 for the=20
> whole story.
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> Sharron Huffman
> HERRING COVE ORIGINALS STUDIO & GALLERY
> Ketchikan, Alaska
> http://www.sharronhuffman.com
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