Penguins 🐧

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• coyootje@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I recently learned about the great auk, it’s so sad that they no longer exist. Humans really suck, so many species went extinct because of us. And in this case it wasn’t even necessary for survival, they just killed a ton of them for their feathers to make fancier pillows (and other stuff) but they weren’t eaten I believe…

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We made the dodo extinct despite it being so gross they Dutch sailors nicknamed it the “walgvogel” or “revulsion bird”.

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    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Were they as annoying as seagulls? Because I could see that being a fairly valid reasoning back in the day.

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    • T156@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In fairness, that was mostly accidental, unlike with the Great Auk. They were driven to extinction by inadvertently-introduced predators, as opposed to being actively hunted.

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  • Allonzee@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The ones we kill are the lucky ones.

    We put the ones we find cute when we “develop” their land in cages, and force them to breed despite being effectively extinct solely we can gawk at them for our amusement.

    We pump the ones we find delicious with laboratory hormones to make them freakishly obese, and cramp them in factory farms until they’re obese enough to kill.

    The Auks and Dodos were treated kindly by the standards of our species.

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    • Rubisco@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • T156@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s particularly sad, since the last of them were killed off by vandalism. Someone went to kill the last pair and smash their eggs for fun.

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• loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In French, the “correct” word for “penguin” is “manchot” /mãʃ/ , and “pingouin” /pɛ̃ɡwɛ̃/ stayed the word for “great auk” for longer… But translating “penguin” as “pingouin” has grown more and more common. First as a mistake, but at that point it’s not clear anymore what is correct or not. Someone a bit pedantic might correct you if you say “pingouin” ok instead of “manchot”, but is a linguistic mistake still a mistake when it’s understood by the majority?

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  • Cort@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My wife and I watched this documentary when it first came out and laughed at him the whole way through. It came up when he was on The Graham Norton show.

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• keepthepace@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  PENGUINS! IM TALKING ABOUT PENGUINS!

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  YEAH, science!

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• phdepressed@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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