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While casting about for feel-good stories, we remembered the lost and starving Magellanic penguins that were airlifted to safety by the Brazilian army last fall. The young penguins, whose home is in the southern Atlantic, had wandered too far north, washing up on the warm beaches of Brazil by the hundreds, and the situation looked grim when "animal-welfare activists loaded the birds onto a Brazilian air force cargo plane and flew them 1,550 miles to the country's southern coast, where a crowd of onlookers celebrated as the penguins marched back into the sea." Definite feel-good material.
January - February Family Vacation Ideas
January and February are lighter-traffic months between the high-volume Holiday Season and Spring Break: which means you can enjoy some uncrowded getaways if your kids are small or for other... Share Some Good Travel Deals
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