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Ricoh! Let 'im 'ave it!

Just watching the penguins’ Caper from the Madagascar DVD. It’s a bit... very... different...

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LookingDeeper said…
Yep, I've been trying to get my head around how to include the Madagasgar penguins in presentations.
31 May, 2006 16:17
Leon RJ Brooks said…
I warps my mind that they invite a polar bear in to celebrate Christmas.

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.
31 May, 2006 16:53
Leon RJ Brooks said…
BTW, the mass calc goes as follows: Emperor Penguins grow to about 1200mm tall and weight up to 40kg at that size, so a penguin scaling up at 3000mm will weigh at least 9x (360kg) as much (more likely 27x as much, or 1.080t) so around 600 kilos a bird looks pretty reasonable.

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).
31 May, 2006 17:21
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