I am starting a penguin thread

[Smegma]

[Duchess]

That little bear is cracking me up.

[Smegma]

I was laughing so hard, I started wheezing which made me laugh even more. Poor little guy is scared shitless and tap dancing in the corner. Which isn't really funny but it so is.

[QueenBee]

Just a guy and some penguins...

[QueenBee]

[Middle Finger]

I was laughing so hard, I started wheezing which made me laugh even more. Poor little guy is scared shitless and tap dancing in the corner. Which isn't really funny but it so is.

I think what it's doing is frantically trying to get as tall as it can for the instinctive height attack advantage!

[Lady Cop]

i baked you a cake QB! hahaha

[Lady Cop]

a romantic pair of penguins hold hands as their buddies congregate in the distance in Port Lockroy, a natural harbor in the Antarctic Peninsula

[Lady Cop]

wonderful photos~

At this time of year, hundreds of Adelie penguins set up camp on Paulet Island in Antarctica and make regular trips back into the water to catch food for their young - making sure to avoid predators in the process.

Wildlife photographer Steve Bloom, from Ashford, Kent, snapped the incredible scenes during a trip to the island.

'Out at sea they can rest on ice floes or icebergs. They can also travel at high speed across the surface of the water by ‘porpoising’, where they launch themselves out in regular arcs.

'There is always danger from leopard seals which may be lurking below.'

daily mail

[QueenBee]

Syracuse Zoo welcomes some new baby penguins. Cuteness overload, of course. Posting link to article here because of the video.

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2...y_arr.html

[Lady Cop]

Sunday funny

[Duchess]

I read that with Maggot's New England accent.

[Lady Cop]

I read that with Maggot's New England accent.

ayup

[QueenBee]

Penguin Escapes From Zoo!!




Police in Tokyo, Japan, are on the hunt for a runaway. The escapee is neither armed nor dangerous, and has a weakness for fish. The Tokyo Sea Life Park announced that a 1-year-old Humboldt penguin got out of its water home at the zoo on March 4. The penguin's escape was a success at first, until a director of a neighboring zoo spotted the bird bathing in the Old Edogawa River.

The official emailed a photo to the penguin's keepers at Tokyo Sea Life Park, who quickly realized they were missing one of their 135 penguins. The runaway's gender is unknown.

A Flightless Escape

Zoo officials say the two-foot-tall bird didn't fly out of the zoo because penguins can't fly, but the details surrounding its escape are fuzzy. It's likely that it scaled a rock wall more than twice its size. "Sometimes wildlife have an 'explosive' power when frightened by something. Maybe it ran up the rock after being surprised," zoo official Takashi Sugino told reporters. Or maybe it simply thought the fish would be tastier on the other side!

The penguin's escape has sparked a widespread hunt and the zoo is now appealing for the public's help in tracking down the bird. Officials warn the public against attempting to capture it. "We apologize for causing trouble to local residents," a notice posted at the zoo says. "Although the penguin will unlikely harm human beings, please contact our aquarium if you spot it, without trying to capture or chase it."

Since the escape, the park has received news of eight sightings of the penguin. But the search continues. "We are optimistic about catching it," Sugino said. "We believe it is still in our neighborhood and that it has found a particular place to sleep."

[Lady Cop]

BOLO
armed and dangerous!

[Lady Cop]

A king penguin looks into the viewfinder of a camera in Antarctica.

[QueenBee]

LC showed me this one. Needed to share.

[QueenBee]

Did you know? Penguins are found in Antarctica, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, the Falkland Islands, and the Galapagos Islands. Elsewhere, they are only found in zoos.

[Ma Huang Sor]

I have one in my tub

[QueenBee]

OK, these are NOT my cute, adorable Penguins....but I guess sick and twisted abounds in all species.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/a...print.html