PENGUINS IN SWEATERS?

PENGUINS IN SWEATERS?


Just when you think you have heard and seen it all-----you haven’t.
Saving the Penguins, recovering them after oil spills.
The smallest breeds of penguins called “fairy penguins” tend to always get caught in oil spills, off the coast of Australia.
This is a deadly problem for the little one foot tall fellows.
Oil destroys their natural oils and they ingest the poison sludge when they try to get it off of themselves.
Help is rallying around and they have found a cure for this disaster.
Doll sized tight-fitting wool sweaters are being knitted by the LDS women. The sweaters can keep the rescued penguins from cold and ingesting the oil.
The sweaters improve the survival rate to about 98%.
Tourists flock to see the tiny penguins as they parade nightly from sea to shore in, Victoria, Australia.
So far 1800 sweaters have been knitted by 300 women.