New Zealand also has penguins. But there is no (map) love for NZ.
Le Penguini
Submitted 5 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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montechristo@feddit.org 5 weeks ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
What’s a New Zealand?
cRazi_man@europe.pub 5 weeks 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.
marcos@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Schrödinger’s country.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 weeks 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.
rowdy@lemmy.zip 5 weeks 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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks 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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
how many decimal places are needed to include penguins in zoos?
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 weeks 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.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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.
jawa21@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
And this is how I learn that there are no Arctic penguins.
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 5 weeks ago
Arctic actually means land without penguins, and Antarctic means land with penguins.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks 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.
sga@lemmings.world 5 weeks ago
its the other way round for bears i think
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
Doesn’t ‘ant’ mean not and ‘arc’ is without? So it’s really closer to ‘without penguins’ and ‘not without penguins’
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
be the invasive species you want to see in the world?
peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 weeks ago
Serious question: what sort of crimes do I have to commit to be reincarnated as a penguin in Australia but not Antarctica?
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
How about the Falklands?
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks 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
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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.
FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.cafe 5 weeks ago
Assuming they survived would probably fuck with fish populations and thereby the predators of fish and the predators of predators of fish.
ignoble_stigmas@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I have never even had a chance to win the birth lottery :(
Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
I like these odds. Being a penguin sounds like generalized anxiety with an extra layer of flubber.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
“I’d rather be happy than right any day”
pennomi@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Surely this isn’t taking into consideration insect populations, right? I’m pretty damn sure I’ll be reincarnated as an ant.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
i asked the internet and antarctica doesn’t have ants, it has midges.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
sideeyes South America
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
it is the address to the golden door
MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 5 weeks ago
South American here. Can confirm 👍
Dequei@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
What about the ones in the zoo?
can@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Statistically insignificant.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
*to captive penguin*
he didn’t mean that buddy
Klear@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Which is great news. There are species where births in zoos are in fact statistically significant =/