Ever wonder why there are no dead penguins on the ice in Antarctica?

[ohiosmith]

Last edited Sun May 19, 2013, 11:38 AM - Edit history (1)

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 in penguin language sing:
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Freeze a jolly good fellow!

Freeze a jolly good fellow!

[Callmecrazy]

1. LOL! You had me going there for just a minute.

You crack me up man!

[LeftofObama]

2. ROFLMAO!

[In_The_Wind]

3. Indeed!

[pipi_k]

4. I dunno...

I'm finding it hard to believe that penguins can dig holes in the ice without using little shovels and ice picks...

[csziggy]

5. Another good penguin story

RAF Falkland Pilots Play with Penguins.

A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvellous new game. Noting that airplanes fascinate the local penguins, the pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly along it at the water's edge. Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match. Then, the paper reports, 'The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin colony and over fly it. Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins fall over gently onto their backs.'

[Article by Audubon Society Magazine]

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/so-do-penguins-really-topple-over-when-aircraft-fly-overhead-621949.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1372818/Scientists-try-to-topple-myth-of-falling-penguins.html
http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Penguin/Catalogs/Reaction_of_penguins_to_aircraft
http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/penguin.asp

[Arugula Latte]

6. Or they can just save some time and do it this way:

[rug]

7. Do you mock our customs?