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Dead Penguins
Topic Started: Jun 10 2012, 03:51 AM (383 Views)
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Did you ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica ? Where do they go?

Wonder no more ! ! !
It is a known fact that the penguin is a very ritualistic bird which lives an extremely ordered and complex life. The penguin is very committed to its family and will mate for life, as well as maintain a form of compassionate contact with its offspring throughout its life.

If a penguin is found dead on the ice surface, other members of the family and social circle have been known to dig holes in the ice, using their vestigial wings and beaks, until the hole is deep enough for the dead bird to be rolled into, and buried.

The male penguins then gather in a circle around the fresh grave and sing:




"Freeze a jolly good fellow."
"Freeze a jolly good fellow."

Then, they kick him in the ice hole.
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<doh>

The truth is quite shocking, have a read of this printed on the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797

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'Depraved' sex acts by penguins shocked polar explorer
"They are not distinguishing between live females who are awaiting congress in the colony, and dead penguins from the previous year which just happen to be in the same position."Dr Levick, an avid biologist, was the medical officer on Captain Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910. He was a pioneer in the study of penguins and was the first person to stay for an entire breeding season with a colony on Cape Adare.

He recorded many details of the lives of adelie penguins, but some of their activities were just too much for the Edwardian sensibilities of the good doctor.

He was shocked by what he described as the "depraved" sexual acts of "hooligan" males who were mating with dead females. So distressed was he that he recorded the "perverted" activities in Greek in his notebook.


Brings a whole new meaning to chilly willy <yikes>
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Penguins are nature's comedians.

During my time in Antarctica, I saw a penguin fall off an iceberg, another ran through the base towards the vehicle yard, and another one ran through the bast, fell on to the snow and tried to swim but didn't get anywhere.
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Steelstallions,Jun 10 2012
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<doh>

The truth is quite shocking, have a read of this printed on the BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797

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'Depraved' sex acts by penguins shocked polar explorer
"They are not distinguishing between live females who are awaiting congress in the colony, and dead penguins from the previous year which just happen to be in the same position."Dr Levick, an avid biologist, was the medical officer on Captain Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910. He was a pioneer in the study of penguins and was the first person to stay for an entire breeding season with a colony on Cape Adare.

He recorded many details of the lives of adelie penguins, but some of their activities were just too much for the Edwardian sensibilities of the good doctor.

He was shocked by what he described as the "depraved" sexual acts of "hooligan" males who were mating with dead females. So distressed was he that he recorded the "perverted" activities in Greek in his notebook.


Brings a whole new meaning to chilly willy <yikes>

But no where in the article do they actually describe scientifically what acts were so prospectively depraved.

Was is sex with a dead penguin without a condom??
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"My Word" said Sir Scott. "It was deplorable!! I don't want to even describe it."

"Just take my word" said Tensig, the Everest guide brought to Antarctica because he knows snow. "I am just glad my dead daughters are not penguins!!"

"It was horrible" said Ecclestone. "It was an issue of male dominance more terrible than the Schumacher/Ferrari years."
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These birds aren't stupid.

Don't know if this has been posted on here before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwqbqZ3L60
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Shuvvi,Jun 11 2012
07:22 PM
These birds aren't stupid.

Don't know if this has been posted on here before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBwqbqZ3L60

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its not only pingu who was lucky, the occupants of the "dinghy" were lucky not to be turned over
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Makes a change from dead parrots....
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