A penguin was collected on January 1 by a wild animal care center located in the Pyrénées Atlantiques.
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Hegalaldia
At the start of 2021, the first animal to be welcomed by the Hegalaldia wildlife conservation center, located in Ustaritz, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, is a twisted penguin.
Probably injured by a drift net, he was found weakened on a beach in the Landes.
The specialized center, judging her injuries to be light, has "good hopes of being able to treat her ailments as soon as possible!"
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The presence of a penguin on the Atlantic coast is not uncommon according to the center, which specifies that the "torda [is] the only penguin in the world that we can find in our latitudes".
Penguins cannot fly and cannot leave the poles.
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