Just watching the penguins’ Caper from the Madagascar DVD. It’s a bit... very... different...
the LEDs on this 5m strip happen to emit light centred on a red that does unexpectedly helpful things to (and surprisingly deeply within) a human routinely exposed to it. it has been soldered to a Molex connector, plugged into a TFX power supply from a (retired: the MoBo is cactus) Small Form Factor PC, the assorted PSU connectors (and loose end from the strip) have been taped over. the LED strip cost $10.24 including postage, the rest cost $0, the PSU is running at 12½% of capacity, consumes less power than a laptop plug-pack despite running a fan. trial runs begin today.
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Given that they live on opposite poles of the planet, I can't see much interaction having happened before, but it's pretty obvious how things would go normally.
The penguins' only serious hope of survival (not voiced in the Christmas Caper here) is that the 3m-tall 600-odd-kilo relatives (Wiamanu) who left fossils in the beach near LCA2006 happen to somehow have survived.
I don't know about beating butterflies, but these feathery dudes (so Kiwi scientists say) certainly beat dinosaurs to the race. And you wouldn't nick fish from them twice, even if you're a polar bear.
Anyone nicking fish from a 600kg bird will pretty much get what they deserve. Especially since those fish will be roughly 1500-3000mm long themselves, and weighing a few hundred kilos (snapper or bluefin tuna were used for typical mass ratios, both of which grow longer and heavier than you).