Monte Concern For The "disappeared" Happy Feet Penguin

Fears are growing well in Happy Feet, the emperor penguin, which washed on the beach in New Zealand, when scientists lost contact with birds.

A transmitter connected to the Penguins earlier this month of its launch in the transmission savage stopped in place on Friday.

The researchers said that Happy Feet may have been eaten, or follow-up may have failed or fallen.

The bird was found emaciated on a beach in June, hundreds of miles off course.

There are many theories abound on the feet of inadvertent contact Felix.

Kevin Lay the track team Sirtrack widlife, told local media that the most likely explanation was that the transmitter had fallen from the penguin.

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It 's time to harden up to the reality that the penguin has returned to the anonymity from which it was born "

Colin Miskelly wildlife experts, Wellington

"To be uninvasive, who have joined so they would fall. We had hoped he would stay for five or six months, but it seems in this case lasted only for two weeks," he told TVNZ.

Mr Place said it was possible that the penguin had been eaten, but it was doubtful.

"There are some species that feed on the Emperor Penguins. It is not likely to be successful in Happy Feet, because the area was," he said.

Wildlife experts Colin Miskelly, who advised treating the foot of Happy, told the AFP's efforts to find news agency the penguin will follow.

"And 'unlikely that we will never know what caused the transmission to stop, but it is time to harden up to the reality that the penguin has returned to the anonymity from which he was born," he told the news agency.

Abdominal surgery

Happy Feet was released from the research vessel Tangaroa, September 4 in the Southern Ocean about 50 miles (80 km) north of Campbell remote island.

He returned to the wild after recovering from surgery to remove 3 kg (6.6 pounds) of sand in his stomach.

Appeared Peka Peka Beach unexpected - north of Wellington and 3000 km (1860 miles) from its colony Antarctica - stunned wildlife experts, who said he was only the second emperor ever recorded in New Zealand.

It is thought to have eaten the sand swallow wrong with penguins snow to stay hydrated.