Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:09:38 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Rutter Subject: Penguins Buoyed By News MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thought some of you might enjoy this. From: Feb. 2 Congressional Greensheets THIS JUST IN ... PENGUINS DO NOT FALL OVER LOOKING AT PLANES Putting to rest years of folklore, a study has concluded that penguins do not fall over watching planes and helicopters overhead. An environmental researcher who spent five weeks in the Antarctic studying the effect of flights on more than 1,000 birds said, "Not a single bird fell over after 17 flights." Keith Rutter pogo@pogo.org -- http://www.pogo.org Project On Government Oversight Watchdog Since 1981 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================