The 0.6% being born in Africa:
New Zealand also has penguins. But there is no (map) love for NZ.
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.
What’s a New Zealand?
Zealand died unexpectedly and we had to rush out and replace it quickly before the kids got home from school. Don’t tell them.
Colonial name for Aotearoa
That’s the right answer
Schrödinger’s country.
What about the ones in the zoo?
Statistically insignificant.
*to captive penguin*
he didn’t mean that buddy
Which is great news. There are species where births in zoos are in fact statistically significant =/
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.
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.
Apparently you could spot these bois chilling in Southern Spain or Florida.
how many decimal places are needed to include penguins in zoos?
And this is how I learn that there are no Arctic penguins.
be the invasive species you want to see in the world?
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.
You’re absolutely correct, I was riffing on the commonly mentioned fact you said. Similar to the “mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell.” meme people mention often.
its the other way round for bears i think
Bear without penguins and bear with penguins? I’m no bearologist but I don’t think that’s right.
So for bears Arctic means land with penguins
There aren’t many bears on Lemmy, though, so we don’t need to use their terminology.
But the bear referenced there is not the animal but the constellation…
Arctic = towards the bear, so north
Antarctic = the opposite (=ant[i]) direction
Doesn’t ‘ant’ mean not and ‘arc’ is without? So it’s really closer to ‘without penguins’ and ‘not without penguins’
“Arktos” is greek for bear.
The arctis is the region towards the bear, meaning the constellation so north… while the antarctis is the opposite direction (ant(i) = opposite).
grok is this true
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
Serious question: what sort of crimes do I have to commit to be reincarnated as a penguin in Australia but not Antarctica?
Hey. The penguins i’ve seen in Melbourne look quite happy.
They even won a photo award ;)
How about the Falklands?
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.
Assuming they survived would probably fuck with fish populations and thereby the predators of fish and the predators of predators of fish.
South American here. Can confirm 👍
I have never even had a chance to win the birth lottery :(
I like these odds. Being a penguin sounds like generalized anxiety with an extra layer of flubber.
“I’d rather be happy than right any day”
