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I hate it in movies where a polar bear is chasing a penguin.
That is stupid, as penguins live near the south pole, and polar bears live near the north.
But what if we imported a colony of penguins to the North Pole?
It is cold there. They like the cold.
There are fish there. They
eat fish.
Seals live in the North AND South Pole, and are the only real competition for food.
Sea lions eat penguins in the south. Polar bears could eat them in the north.
I think penguins would fit in well in Alaska and the north.
Baffins, terror of iqualuit
http://www.thetoque.com/020827/baffin.htm
the most fearsome of canadian creatures, more deadly than a Moose! [schematics, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
penguins in the arctic?
http://www.penguin-...om/post/index8.html
Nine king penguins were released by scientists in Lofoten and Finmark in 1935, and in 1938... [xaviergisz, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
galapagos penguines
http://www.siec.k12...penguins/galap.html
[engineer1, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
galapagos map
http://www.geo.corn...W/GalapagosMap.html
does crossing the equator by 1degree make them northern hemisphere? [engineer1, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
Does bath water spiral in different directions north and south of the equator?
http://www.ucolick....s/physics/ph16.html
This guy says it does [tasman, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 06 2004]
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yay pengiuns!!! what a great idea! there shoould be penguins in greenland as well |
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Welcome back [DF]. The history of humans introducing species to ecosystems is not a happy one. Think rabbits or cane-toads. But my real concern is this: what is this movie where polar bears chase penguins? |
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its called "three hours of penguin chasing polor bears". you should see it sometime |
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I was away for 4th of July at another family reunion..... |
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Then when I got back, my internet was down. |
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its a really good movie, my favorite part is when the polar bear chases the penguin |
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[YBB] Well done for adding the quote marks. You might want to check the spelling of "polar" as well. Oh, and btw, I think you're lying to me. ;-) |
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lie!!! you fool!!! how dare you question my authority!!! |
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*breaks down and cries* im so sorry, i did lie to you... i just...i always wanted there to be a movie like that... and .... im just so afraid that there will never be one *weeps bitterly* |
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It was actually your honesty I was questioning. Or is this about the polor/polar issue? |
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umm... well i thought that it was about my honesty... but you can make it about the polar/polor thing, if you want. in that case i think you might be right. hmmm... |
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Next: Bi-polar bears Lives in the north pole AND south pole. Switches every season. |
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i looked it up and it is polar bear, not polor bear |
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what moggy said the 1st time but nice to see you back you daft DF |
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sorry, gotta vote neg for moving species about but a + vote for you! keep posting! |
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First the penguins would be terribly jet-lagged by two winters in a row, and then they'd get clubbed to death by polar humans. |
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I too was wondering where the daily barrage of DesertFox
ideas went |
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finally, competition for the baffin (see
link). this is a grand idea. i might have
to go on an expedition to bake it. |
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People say "Waaah! We can't introduce
these species to new places," and yet
they overlook one species that
shouldn't be introduced anywhere
new...Humans. |
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Keep barraging us
with new ideas but <Tongue in Cheek>
how exactly is this
terraforming? (Bait for UnaBubba) Are
you saying that the northern
hemisphere is less Earthlike than the
soutern hemisphere because of a lack
of penguins? It is cold on Mars, I
believe you could be correct if humans
overlooked the possibility of sending
penguins there to terraform it. <TIC> |
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Penguins are southern hemisphere, there are wild penguins right up in the Galapagos islands which are virtually on the equator as in 10's of miles. |
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1. the Galapagos archipelago is on the equator and 600miles from south america, as such i think that the assertion they are southern hemisphere is fairly safe. |
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2. well by wild i mean not in zoos otherwise all you need to do is visit a zoo in a northern hemisphere country. |
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[Tabs]: Coriolis forces have no effect on small bodies of water (such as bathtubs). The old chestnut about sinks draining different ways in different hemispheres is a fallacy. |
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//The old chestnut about sinks draining different ways in different hemispheres is a fallacy//
And bumblebees can't fly either. |
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I think the arctic foxes would make short work of the penguins. I have pondered introducing one (just one!) arctic fox to the antarctic as sort of a fox valhalla reward for good behavior. A fox in a penguin colony would be a very happy, fat fox. If somewhat lonely. |
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I think this idea could be somewhat expanded: |
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1) Artic camels
2) Space moggies
3) Whales dumped in some of the Scottish lochs. |
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//I think the arctic foxes would make short work of the penguins// |
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Will you give me four and a half chicks start on the match between a pussy northern hemisphere Arctic Fox and 15,000 Emperor penguins on their home ice? |
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I think it falls to either of two species Wilderbeast or Capybara to be chased around by predators on TV. They are the only ones capable of managing to be chased down and eaten without upsetting the general public. |
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I propose a Great arctic Migration of Gnu's from the rift to the north pole via Murmansk Ice Sheets (we may have problems around the Suez). |
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Yetis?!? did they do a wrong turn somewhere? |
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Yetis are traditionally found in the Himalayas. |
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The Great Auk was equivalent to a northern Penguin. If Penguins could survive in the North it would be where the Great Auks formerly roamed. |
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V ery small problem with this is that we
are running out of North Pole. Current
predictions indicate the possibility of an
icy sea in the not-so-distant future... |
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