However, the sudden fury of last night's spring rainstorm, moved those untended ferryboats away from shore, leaving them crossways in the middle of the stream.
But in the last century, populations of the endangered African penguin have plummeted, due in part to human disturbance, egg poaching and climate change.
It suggests that declines like these are happening with different insects around the world though there's so much that's unknown about certain regions that it's hard for researchers to say for sure.
Satellite data that came out last week indicated there'd been a dramatic increase in the number of wildfires burning in the Amazon Rainforest including parts of Brazil and other surrounding countries.
State subsidies for public colleges and universities have declined precipitously, and state funding represents an increasingly small share of the budget at public research universities.
Experts claim that diabetes did not exist in UAE a couple of decades ago but that, due to massive change in the country's diet, the number of people with this disease has skyrocketed in the last few years.