A four-week-old Little Penguin chick, more commonly referred to as a
Fairy Penguin chick, is held by a National Parks and Wildlife Service
ranger near its man-made hutch on the foreshore of Sydney Harbour
October 25, 2001. The National Parks and Wildlife Service is conducting
studies on 70 breeding pairs of endangered penguins in what is believed
to be the world's only colony in a major city. The decline in their
once-extensive population is thought to have been caused by habitat
destruction as urban development encroaches and predatory attacks by
cats and dogs. REUTERS/Mark Baker

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