Homewrecking penguin!
Keyser_Soze1
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Penguins may be very cute but they are also wild animals with private lives that can closely resemble our own.
This National Geographic video is a real eye opener.
Prepare to have your heart broken as some poor sod comes home from a hard day's fishing only to be astounded to see his cheating **** of a wife shacking up with the latest badboy!
The fight is really brutal though but I was backing the husband all the way and I think he left with his dignity intact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHeKcZV7vA
This National Geographic video is a real eye opener.
Prepare to have your heart broken as some poor sod comes home from a hard day's fishing only to be astounded to see his cheating **** of a wife shacking up with the latest badboy!
The fight is really brutal though but I was backing the husband all the way and I think he left with his dignity intact.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrHeKcZV7vA
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Penguins are gorge though. I've seen them at the London Aquarium where they have their own space and you can see them inches away swimming underwater in a special tank.
Interesting video -thanks.
It is quite the soap opera amongst the penguin colonies!
I had seen them cheating on documentaries before but never such a determined (and brutal) fight between two males.
Only the other week I saw an unfaithful husband and his bit on the side get a bloody good kicking from his returning missus - now that was hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y07qZ4eNZrw
Are you being a vile penguinist?
I am reporting you to the mods at once! >:(
In the wild, they're not quite as black/white and smart, and a colony of them stinks a fair bit:D Still one of the planet's cutest groups of animals though. I've been privileged to see about 5000 of them take to the ocean in the penguin variant of a Mexican wave. Gentoos, not a large species, but very distinctive.
Makes for interesting viewing at feeding time.
Amazing how an animal that's so awkward on land become little rocket-ships when they're in the water.
im not penguinist, but i just dont think they should be living in a temperute urban landscape.
their all very well in their own areas, i noticed some have migrated to hulls aqaurium, the deep. but if i saw them in the middle of town id have no hesitation in ringing the athourites to send them back where they came from....
They're pretty bird brained, I'm not sure how much they notice. A predator free pool, plenty of fish, and sexy lady and gentlemen penguins, I reckon they're quite happy.
i think their bird-brained too..... its what i focus on when i make penguin jokes.
well, their not like us, are they?...
They exhibit lots of pseudo human behaviour traits of course, particularly sexually, but no, not the least like us really.
They may have a bird brain but that is now as misleading an insult as comparing someone to a dinosaur.
Look at the Corvids and Parrots on the animal intelligence thread!
They're really not amongst the smarter birds:D They make up for it in appearance and cute behaviour to win our affection.
They actually are very smart - it's their comical appearance (to us) on land that makes people vastly underestimate them.
Chris Packham's superb new BBC4 series 'The Wonder of Animals' had an episode on their incredible evolutionary adaptations as well.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dq5tb
The show is a tremendous watch for any animal lovers and incorporates all the latest scientific research on the groups of species it features. ^_^
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04dq51x
But are they cormorants or are they shags.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_shag
That was hilarious!
The thief was so sneaky and sly about it.
Got caught out in the end though!
Wonderful, smart little birds.
I downloaded the whole series from YT (3 one hour programmes IIRC), but the links seemed to be removed, as presumably the BBC weren't happy, it being copyright material.
I wouldn't describe most of them as little, not like a house sparrow or finch for example.
He was such a sneaky little git - I always remembered that scene!
Did you see the one with Rocky (I think that's his name) the penguin and his wife shacking up with another penguin whilst he listened outside.
I'm going to look for the clip but that made me laugh.
I was expecting 'security' penguins to step in.