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Aww...Penguins

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Kind of a bummer, but such is the way of life out in nature.

Thousands of penguins die after iceberg traps colony - CNN.com

Combined with expanding ice, the B09B iceberg, which at 1,120 square miles is almost the size of Rhode Island, has cut off the Adelie penguins' food supply and changed the landscape of their home, according to a February report in the peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press.

The towering mass of water ice first ran aground into the penguins' habitat of Cape Denison in Commonwealth Bay in 2010. Before that it was floating along the coast for nearly 20 years before colliding into the bay. The iceberg essentially has landlocked the penguins, forcing the animals to trek across a desolate stretch of nearly 40 miles to find food.
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Am I the only one to come here thinking this was about Crosby and the Pittsburgh Penguins?


I should add that is sad news losing 150,000 penguins.
 
_Sal said:
it is a bummer but at least it was a natural disaster don't know why I feel better about it because dead is dead but...yeah I do
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Same here. The key in nature is adaptability. Not moving your breeding grounds closer to the open water after an event closes off your access to the sea would be a perfect example of a failure to adapt.
 
calamity said:
Same here. The key in nature is adaptability. Not moving your breeding grounds closer to the open water after an event closes off your access to the sea would be a perfect example of a failure to adapt.
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agreed

ya kind of wonder at though ... why did it happen?

animals usually are much smarter when it comes to survival
 
_Sal said:
agreed

ya kind of wonder at though ... why did it happen?

animals usually are much smarter when it comes to survival
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A lot of animals which experience very little change over many generations do not adapt well. Pandas are the best example of that. Idiots will starve before they eat anything other than bamboo.
 
calamity said:
A lot of animals which experience very little change over many generations do not adapt well. Pandas are the best example of that. Idiots will starve before they eat anything other than bamboo.
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true enough about the pandas...cute and stupid...I don't like anything to suffer though
 
I got to see penguins in the wild once, in S. Africa. Swimming in on the waves, attacking us as we walked past....alas, the film jammed in my camera....wish I had photos.
 
_Sal said:
wish you did too...at least you had the experience and can carry the memory
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Big Jackass Penguins. Tough little buggers.
 
I wonder what penguins taste like?
 
beefheart said:
Big Jackass Penguins. Tough little buggers.
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never heard of them...so I looked them up...holy cow

mate for life and can live up to 27 years and:
African penguin normally is about 27-28 inches tall and weighs approximately 5 to 11 pounds.
Unlike other species of penguins they have a black spots contained on the chest region and a black strip.
Each penguin has a different pattern of spots which is characteristic only to them, very similar to a fingerprint.
Pink glands cover their eyes which keeps the eyes cool when the temperatures around them get too hot.
The males are usually larger than the females and have a much more pointed beak.
The black and white colors that they display is not only cute, it serves as camouflage for them against prey.
The most defining characteristic that they possess which other penguin species do not is black feet and black spots on the white part of their fur. -
See more at: African Penguin - Facts, Habitat, Pictures, Behavior, Information | Animals Adda

thanks...never would have known of them otherwise
 
Quag said:
I wonder what penguins taste like?
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not so good apparently:

A particularly unflattering description of penguin meat composed by a Belgian seaman in 1898 suggests that it won't be replacing chicken anytime soon: “If it's possible to imagine a piece of beef, odiferous cod fish, and a canvas-backed duck roasted together in a pot, with blood and cod-liver oil for sauce, the ...Feb 19, 2014
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_Sal said:
not so good apparently:
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So instead of turducken its kinda like cowduckod (Cod stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside beef)
 
_Sal said:
not so good apparently:
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They would be used as lamps on the ships, rip their head off, stick a wick in the hole and you have a long lasting candle burning all that fat.
 
_Sal said:
never heard of them...so I looked them up...holy cow

mate for life and can live up to 27 years and:
African penguin normally is about 27-28 inches tall and weighs approximately 5 to 11 pounds.
Unlike other species of penguins they have a black spots contained on the chest region and a black strip.
Each penguin has a different pattern of spots which is characteristic only to them, very similar to a fingerprint.
Pink glands cover their eyes which keeps the eyes cool when the temperatures around them get too hot.
The males are usually larger than the females and have a much more pointed beak.
The black and white colors that they display is not only cute, it serves as camouflage for them against prey.
The most defining characteristic that they possess which other penguin species do not is black feet and black spots on the white part of their fur. -
See more at: African Penguin - Facts, Habitat, Pictures, Behavior, Information | Animals Adda

thanks...never would have known of them otherwise
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In the film March of the Penguins, we learn a lot more, that they are kind of caught in cycle they are in, trecking in winter to their breeding ground and rtetuning in spring for food.

They probably have no idea they can take a better path
 
Fearandloathing said:
In the film March of the Penguins, we learn a lot more, that they are kind of caught in cycle they are in, trecking in winter to their breeding ground and rtetuning in spring for food.

They probably have no idea they can take a better path
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I'd better get caught up on some films... ;) even the sad ones
 
calamity said:
A lot of animals which experience very little change over many generations do not adapt well. Pandas are the best example of that. Idiots will starve before they eat anything other than bamboo.
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And that's evolution in action. Then they die and something else comes along to fill in their ecological niche.
 
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