Humans help baby puffins fly out to sea!

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Originally published at: Humans help baby puffins fly out to sea! - Boing Boing

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Contributed by Jennifer Sandlin

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A puffling is a young puffin, and puffling season is when these youngsters get help from humans…

So young humans are called “humelings”?

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Complain about their population decline all you want, but Icelanders are hunting hundreds of them a day. They are on the menu of every restaurant in Iceland. Maybe don’t do that?

Meanwhile, I prefer these:

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“Humans help baby puffins fly out to sea!”
I swear, at first glance I thought this said “Humans help baby puffins fly out to seal”.

(Which, in all likelihood, is how things worked out… :slightly_frowning_face:)

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Couldn’t they reduce the amount of light pollution for a few weeks?

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Further good news for puffinkind

Bucking the trend for seabirds in the UK.

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season 5 a test of strength GIF by Star Wars

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I really liked this New Yorker documentary short (20 min) from last year, called “Puffling”.

The film embedded, plus the story behind the film:

You’ll probably need a sign-in for the New Yorker link above. If you can’t access the article, I think you should be able to see the film on vimeo:

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