We thought his was a happy ending story. Of those that you rarely manage to tell, but apparently Happy Feet, the penguin bounced on all the pages of the newspapers for being lost in New Zealand, having eaten sand believing it was ice and brought back to Antarctica just a few days ago by the New Zealand scientists who had saved and cared for him, maybe he will keep only the name of Happy and not the "End" as the whole world had hoped.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves him
We thought his was a happy ending story. Of those that you rarely manage to tell, but apparently Happy Feet, the penguin bounced on all the pages of the newspapers for being lost in New Zealand, having eaten sand believing it was ice and brought back to Antarctica just a few days ago by the New Zealand scientists who had saved and looked after him, perhaps he will only keep the name of "Happy" and not the "End" as the whole world had hoped.
After just 5 days of freedomIn fact, of Happy Feet nothing more is known: the small transmitter that had been attached to his neck to monitor his movements, since last Friday has not emitted any signal, throwing the team that had treated him into despair and now wondering about his end.
There are many hypotheses advanced, from the cruelest of the laws of nature to the one that would hope in the loss of the small transmitter. In fact, many fear that Happy Feet has ended up being fed to the sharks or polar bears.
To keep alive the hopes for the emperor penguin named after the famous 2006 cartoon film, the statements of Kevin Lay, one of the scientists who had cared for him in the two months he was convalescing at the Wellington Zoo, released to the BBC online: “It is true that some species feed on emperor penguins but honestly I think this is a fairly remote possibility, something must have happened. to the transmitter, that's all ".
As you will recall, on September 4th Happy Feet was brought back to the South Pole with a ship by the same veterinary team that had followed him. After four days of sailing in a refrigerated cage, the little animal had returned to roam its waters, released at Campbell Island, a remote subantarctic island 630 km south of New Zealand very frequented by its kind.
The first signals sent by the small transmitter attached to the animal's feathers with a super glue that should have held up at least until the beginning of next year, had detected that Happy Feet he had zigzagged southeast for over 120 kilometers, a path, according to experts, typical for a penguin that goes hunting for fish. But since Friday everything is silent. Even if we like to think that Happy Feet is continuing to swim happily towards the South Pole, if this is not the case it will mean, however, that nature has run its course ...
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