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Smart birds! (article)

Penguins Stay Snug and Secure in Minefields

Tuesday, September 27, 2005; Posted: 11:46 a.m. EDT (15:46 GMT)

KIDNEY COVE, Falkland Islands (Reuters) -- There's a mating ritual going on in the minefield.

Fortunately the would-be lovers are penguins, too light to detonate the deadly mines laid more than two decades ago during a war on the far-flung Falkland Islands.

Thousands of penguins and other feathered and amphibious friends choose to nest and rest in no-go zones. The British estimate that some 25,000 land mines, mostly sown by Argentine forces in the 1982 war with Britain, remain.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/09/27/falklands.penguins.reut/index.html

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