Jill's Pick from Around the World: Rare Black Penguin Sightings
Photo credit: nationalgeographic.com
"When Andrew Evans sent us a photo of a rare melanistic penguin that he spotted during his travels, I became intrigued. So I decided to call up Dr. Allan Baker, an ornithologist and professor of Environmental and Evolutionary Studies at the University of Toronto and head of the Department of Natural History at the Royal Ontario Museum, to learn more about melanism in birds. I got him on the line before he had the chance to look at the photos, and suffice it to say he was slightly flabbergasted at what he saw: "Wow. That looks so bizarre I can't even believe it. Wow," was his first response. Then he made me swear on a stack of National Geographic magazines that the image was real."
To view previous Jill's Pick from Around the World stories follow these links:
- 3/4/10: Weed Killer Makes Male Frogs Lay Eggs
- 2/25/10: Plan to legitimize Southern Ocean whaling angers conservationists
- 2/17/10: Kenya rounds up zebras for starving lions
- 2/10/10: Animal Valentines
- 2/4/10: France backs ban on bluefin tuna exports
- 1/27/10: World's Longest Migration is 2X Longer Than Thought
- 1/13/10: Sharks Killed for Oil Used in Swine Flu Vaccine
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 3/12/2010 2:00 PM 
Categories: Jill's Pick from Around the World
Tags: allan baker black penguins penguin antarctica melanistic
Categories: Jill's Pick from Around the World
Tags: allan baker black penguins penguin antarctica melanistic
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