Global Distribution of Penguins

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Had no idea they crept that far up the coast of South America. My Geography is useless, what’s that little island off the west coast?

There’s a flat earth joke in here somewhere

Galapagos

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isla santiago isla fernandina isla matanceros plus two smaller ones isla tacana and isla pena

southwest of costa rica. they call it the muerto archipelago

pirates used to land ships and paleontologists did a bunch of stuff on that chain of islands

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Damn look at the big brain on Brad!

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You always see them on Christmas stuff because they migrate to the North Pole in the winter time.

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beautiful place



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i would love to vacation there


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You slid a Bob Ross painting in there

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Penguins in South Africa?

lulz

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I never knew the Galapagos Isles were over there. There is a type of Penguin called the Galapagos Penguin too isn’t there, or am I mistaken? I presume it’s native to the Isles rather than the Penguins going for a fuck off great swim from Antarctica?

I only found that one out a couple of years back too, crazy that you get Penguins in Africa huh, just doesn’t seem right to say it. It’s like if you suddenly saw a Camel stroll up to you in the Arctic

Doesn’t look much fun for a Penguin mind you…

I wonder how fucked up it would be to introduce them as a food source for polar bears in the north or Vice versa. Somebody probably has thought about this

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It’s been done, in 1936. They have been introduced above the Arctic Circle but this is not in polar bear country though. Google machine said no flightless birds up there on the ice.

https://nettarkiv.npolar.no/sorpolen2011.npolar.no/en/did-you-know/2011-12-05-penguins-used-to-live-in-lofoten.html

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