Researchers are racing with time in saving the South African penguin from extinction. In 2010, the penguin was added to the US Endangered Species list. Their numbers have dropped from more than a million to less than 80.000. "We are working together with zoos and aquarium across North America on a species survival project. The only way to save the Penguins is by breeding them in capacity," said Brooke Weinstein, Biologists at the California Academy of Science. The South African penguin is also known as the Jackass Pengui. It has similiar sound to a donkey when it communicates. It is the only penguin stein aso said that breeds in africa. Ms. Weinstein also said that climated change and over-fishing must be urgently stopped so that the Jackass Penguin has a change at Survival.
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