A SOUTH African expert has condemned an Internet offer to sell penguins as pets. Paul Britton, chairman of the South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds, which oversaw the mammoth rehabilitation of 40 000 oil-slicked penguins after a ship sank off Cape Town’s Table Bay last June, said penguins are not easily domesticated and require specialised handling. He was commenting on a Dutch website advertising penguins from Mauritius. – AFP