Penguins are a Christmas animal because they're all catholic.

I see the ongoing slide into labelling anything mildy analytical as autistic is in full swing.

I can't say I've ever seen penguins in relation to christmas

Am I missing something? A few penguin references / associations with Christmas, sure I've seen that. But, at least in my part of the world, they're not a major part of the lore -- or am I having a moment?

Either way, this can be easily explained: It's called being inclusive. The last thing you want is a north pole versus south pole world wide Christmas turf war, best to extend an olive branch andlean into that diversity and inclusion metric for the good of the world's children and the fate of humanity.

The penguins we know today are not actual penguins. They are named after the real penguins which were prevalent in the northern hemisphere but which humans drove to extinction.

Edit: the Great Auk

Santa essentially has teleportation. Space is meaningless to the entity we know as Santa.

Yes, but

Puffins are penguins if they didn’t give up on the whole flight thing

Excuse me while I get mauled by a polar bear to get in the Christmas spirit.

Not exactly north pole.

Puffin

Cormorant

Arctic tern

Common eider

King eider

White-tailed eagle

Kittiwake

Fulmar

Snow bunting

Northern gannet

Sanderling

Black guillemot

Brünnich’s guillemot

Little auk

Arctic skua

Long-tailed skua

Ptarmigan

Great northern diver

Red-throated diver

Glaucous gull

Lesser black-backed gull

Great black-backed gull

Ivory gull

Red phalarope (grey phalarope)

Pink-footed goose

Barnacle goose

Brant goose

Razorbill

Turnstone

https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/blog/22-enchanting-arctic-birds-and-their-most-fascinating-facts

The website has pictures.

Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.

Snow and cold weather is christmasish to me

Aren't they only called penguins because of their resemblance to the now extinct great Auk, a Northern pole bird? Which would justify the attachment to the North pole and Santa?

What has the north pole to do with Christmas? Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Jesus was born in the middle east. Presents are made in China. Your house is whatever it is, surely not on the north pole.

Well, Topper the penguin, did help Santa when he was trying to deliver his toys in Sombertown.

If ranting about cultural associations of animals makes me autistic, I don't want to be autistic!