‘What little they had to eat, they ate—cans of mysterious tinned meat and fishballs that supposedly contained cream. Even Nansen, the ship’s cat, went a little crazy. Eventually, penguins began flocking to the ship and the birds were—Cook wrote—“of equal interest to the naturalist and the cook.” He began eating penguins.’

"Four penguins and some exotic fish were killed in the accident, including three penguins that were hit by passing motorists" terrible really. At least most of them were saved.