The author stuffed an Emperor Penguin in May, 1953. He obtained several informations from the salt-pickled penguin which was brought from the Antarctic Sea. So fatty were both the exterior and interior of the skin that the stuffing was difficult.
The greater part of the body was about to shed its feathers, and new feathers were growing half the length of the old feathers. Feather sheeth in the subcutaneous part resembled the hairs of mammalian fur, and did not like the feathers of average birds.
To my surprise, a roughly one-inch scar was found on the left-thigh, which had already healed. On the new skin were growing feathers. Under the subcutaneous fat, the wounded and broken skin was found buried with its feathers. All over the tongue were rough and strong spines which resembled a twoothbrush. The penguin completely sets its two heels on the ground. Its skeleton was solid. Though dry enamelled wires were used in stuffing, they melted when it touched the fat of the penguin.
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