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Published online 22 January 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020121-3
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Slick birds are wearing wool
Knitted pullovers protect penguins from oil discharge.
Knitters around the world have pulled together to save thousands of oil-soaked little penguins on Phillip Island, southern Australia.
Ten thousand penguin-sized, pure-wool jumpers have flooded into the offices of the Tasmanian Conservation Trust in response to their call for emergency insulation for a vulnerable population of world's smallest penguins - sometimes known as fairy penguins.
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