Exclusive to the snowy southern hemispheres:
They are very photogenic:
There are between 17 and 20 species, depending who you believe; southern rockhoppers are from the Falkland Islands
A megallanic penguin from Chile, Argentina and the Falkland Islands:
March of the (emperor) penguins:
Look how furry these babies are:
Emperor penguin chicks:
PINGU ~ I saw one of these the other day. They're made by Finnish TV for Germany ~ hence the odd baby-babble. Very cute ~
PINGU GOES FISHING
PINGU GOES SNOWBOARDING
PINGU IN HOSPITAL
not on topic of OP, but thank you SO much for the comments you left. I am STILL recovering from that (it got me sick, and i had some left over and i did it again because i was drunk and got even sicker). It was one of the scariest experiences of my life- i matched almost all the symptoms (except death! thankfully!). Thank god i had some old valium lying around of I wouldnt have been able to breathe (i chewed and swalled the valium it was so bad)
ReplyDeleteYou have no idea how much i appreciate that, THANK you!
ah the pingu took me back - my daughter used to love it, we watched it all the time!
ReplyDeletethey are extraordinary and fascinating creatures
hope you are ok gledwood?
J: ~ sounds like you had a dirty hit, or what the Americans call cotton fever. I once had it from banging up a scab I found in a drawer (ie my own old bloody filter) ~ I felt so ill I still could barely walk the next day. The symptoms ~ vomiting, raging headache etc (is that what happened to you?) are v similar to blood poisoning and they say it's injecting dirt direct into the bloodstream, from bad filters, that does it... Nasty business!
ReplyDeleteLettuce: I had neard of Pingu but never seen it till the end of last week. Pingu got hit on the beak and was bleeding ~ had to go to the dentist, and the penguin dentist was dead entertaining...!
Love penguins, love Pingu!
ReplyDeleteIsn't Pingu adorable..!
ReplyDeletePenguins are really neat birds. Interesting that they are Antarctic birds and not in the Arctic.
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