What about the ones in the zoo?
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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 =/
New Zealand also has penguins. But there is no (map) love for NZ.
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
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.
Schrödinger's country.
The 0.6% being born in Africa:
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?
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.
While that may be true we all know there are no lions in Sweden, he's been dead for awhile now. You can choose if I'm talking about Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden or that poor beast that was taxidermied.
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?
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.
Assuming they survived would probably fuck with fish populations and thereby the predators of fish and the predators of predators of fish.
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"
sideeyes South America
Surely this isn’t taking into consideration insect populations, right? I’m pretty damn sure I’ll be reincarnated as an ant.
Edit: ah, I see I misinterpreted the graph. Never mind and carry on.
i asked the internet and antarctica doesn't have ants, it has midges. i'm not sure whether that's better or worse. right now... better.
South American here. Can confirm 👍