Le Penguini

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• MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  youtu.be/oks2R4LqWtE

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• avattar@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  South American here. Can confirm 👍

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• BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The 0.6% being born in Africa:

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• montechristo@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  New Zealand also has penguins. But there is no (map) love for NZ.

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Schrödinger’s country.

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  • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s a New Zealand?

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    • cRazi_man@europe.pub ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Zealand died unexpectedly and we had to rush out and replace it quickly before the kids got home from school. Don’t tell them.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Colonial name for Aotearoa

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  • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    NZ penguins are almost certainly counted on the number over Australia.

    The fact that each entire continent gets a single number is misleading… But then, that’s why we are here.

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• Dequei@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What about the ones in the zoo?

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  • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Statistically insignificant.

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    • hypnicjerk@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      *to captive penguin*

      he didn’t mean that buddy

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    • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Which is great news. There are species where births in zoos are in fact statistically significant =/

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  DYK there used to be an arctic penguin

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk

  Then when they got to the antarctic, they said hey they’re here too! That’s how the penguin got its name. But they weren’t related.

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  • rowdy@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Whenever I see an extinct animal from the past few hundred years I get tremendously sad that we’ll never have the opportunity to listen to a David Attenborough documentary about them.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I have great news for you, There’d a documentary series narrated by David Attenbrough called prehistoric planet. And is does exactly this. The next season will be on the most recent period (ie. ice age), so possible we will see these great auks that look like penguins.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Apparently you could spot these bois chilling in Souther Spain or Florida.

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• IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  how many decimal places are needed to include penguins in zoos?

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Ian Brown did a song “There Are No Lions In England”, even though he grew up an hour’s drive from Knowsley Safari Park and Chester Zoo.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      While that may be true we all know there are no lions in Sweden. You can choose if I’m talking about Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden or that poor beast that was taxidermied.

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• jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And this is how I learn that there are no Arctic penguins.

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  • MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Arctic actually means land without penguins, and Antarctic means land with penguins.

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    • sga@lemmings.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      its the other way round for bears i think

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s actually bears. The north is named by the Greeks after the Ursa Major constellation in the north literally “big bear”. So it’s the bear place. While the south is the opposite of the bears.

      Happy coincidence it ended up matching polar bear ranges.

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    • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Doesn’t ‘ant’ mean not and ‘arc’ is without? So it’s really closer to ‘without penguins’ and ‘not without penguins’

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• BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ok, but what’s the chance of being hatched on each continent? I believe that it’s a statistical insignificant amount penguins being born anyway

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• peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Serious question: what sort of crimes do I have to commit to be reincarnated as a penguin in Australia but not Antarctica?

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey. The penguins i’ve seen in Melbourne look quite happy.

    They even won a photo award ;)

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• ignoble_stigmas@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have never even had a chance to win the birth lottery :(

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I wonder what would happen if we transplanted some penguins from Antarctica to the arctic. Would they survive?

  Maybe some of the more endangered ones could live and thrive up there, and then become a second food source for the polar bears so they don’t starve now that there isn’t as much ice to hunt seals on.

  It’s not like there much of an ecosystem up there that an invasive species can fuck up like the toads down in Australia.

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Assuming they survived would probably fuck with fish populations and thereby the predators of fish and the predators of predators of fish.

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• Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I like these odds. Being a penguin sounds like generalized anxiety with an extra layer of flubber.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  sideeyes South America

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “I’d rather be happy than right any day”

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• pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Surely this isn’t taking into consideration insect populations, right? I’m pretty damn sure I’ll be reincarnated as an ant.

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