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On Monday 09 July 2007 22:59, Rob Beard wrote: > According to Living Coasts web site it is about £31 to adopt a penguin. > They have two breeds, the Macaroni Pengins (1) and the African Pengin > (2). I found a useful site with pictures and information, turns out > there is even a Gentoo Pengin (3). > > (1) http://www.penguins.cl/macaroni-penguins.htm > (2) http://www.penguins.cl/african-penguins.htm > (3) http://www.penguins.cl/gentoo-penguins.htm > > I'm sure I could convince the news people where I work to do a story on > it, and I bet we could get something in the newspapers. > > Rob Looking at Newquay Zoo website, they have a fee of £30 per annum - same sort of thing as Paignton/Living Coasts, with a plaque, picture etc. If we can organise something, it would be quite a good publicity idea for the LUG. I suspect the Zoo or whatever would be happy to see a bit of publicity too - the local papers often like these sorts of things. >>From memory, they are Humboldt penguins at Newquay Zoo. A word of warning - if you get an invitation to visit the chicks inside, they really do smell terrible! Lovely and fluffy, but.... Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html