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Dear
Bob,
That is just such
very dismal news.
You must be so
saddened that your efforts came to naught.
To put the very
smallest of bright lights on this sad event, I will tell you that the dear
penguin brought lots of pleasure and interest and information to some
little children overseas (I guess it's best that they are not told of the
outcome).
I thought that
Steve's photos were brilliant; you had to fall in love with the penguin.
What a personality. So I mentioned its vagrant presence, and
forwarded Steve's fantastic photos, to a genealogical correspondent of mine
overseas. Amazingly, it transpired that her Year 1 class had
been studying penguins for all of their school year. So she took
the photos and the story to them. They loved the penguin - and
they learned so much. About penguins, about geography, and about
Australia.
Small consolation - but something at
least.
Perhaps the cause of
death may never be known - after all, how many parasites, diseases, other
complaints are in wild penguin populations without causing
death.
Very best
regards,
Judy
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