What about the ones in the zoo?
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DYK there used to be an arctic penguin
https://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.
Apparently you could spot these bois chilling in Southern Spain or Florida.

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.
I have great news for you, There’s 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.
how many decimal places are needed to include penguins in zoos?
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.
Arctic actually means land without penguins, and Antarctic means land with penguins.
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.
its the other way round for bears i think
Doesn't 'ant' mean not and 'arc' is without? So it's really closer to 'without penguins' and 'not without penguins'
Serious question: what sort of crimes do I have to commit to be reincarnated as a penguin in Australia but not Antarctica?
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
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.
I like these odds. Being a penguin sounds like generalized anxiety with an extra layer of flubber.


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