Dead Penguins: Does Anybody Care?

by Turtle MacBride

First, it's hundreds of dead penguins in Brazil, then Chile, and now Uruguay. Hundreds, even thousands of the cute little birds washing ashore, dying, apparently of starvation. Oh, the humanity!

From TreeHugger.com:

On the Average Year, Only About 10 Dead Penguins are Found in that Area
Over just the past 10 days, around 500 dead penguins have washed up on beaches in the Sao Paolo state of Brazil. What killed the black-and-white birds is still a mystery, though the autopsy of some of the dead birds has revealed empty stomachs, meaning that starvation could be the cause of death. But if that's the case, what is the cause of the starvation?

But why should these tuxedoed birds be starving? They're all protected by treaty. Nobody can hunt them for food production or for sport or any other reason.

Well, did it ever occur to anybody that, in the absence of a natural predator, species tend to grow in their numbers until they exhaust their food supply? Then, the members of the population have to roam further and further in search of food.

No wonder a Magellan Penguin washed ashore in New Zealand, just a few days ago, in search of food.

The simple answer that penguins roam far, in search of food, because they exhaust local supplies, would be lost to those believing that the great god Gaya keeps everything always in perfect harmony and that everything bad that ever happens is because of man.