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1.5 million penguins discovered on remote Antarctic islands
AFP/MSN ^ | 02 Mar 2018 | Rachael Herman

Posted on 03/02/2018 8:34:15 PM PST by blueplum

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To: Mastador1

Exactly. Poor polar bears on their tiny icebergs.


21 posted on 03/02/2018 9:42:52 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Crucial

Perhaps a new fast food chain called Kentucky Fried Penguins could start.


22 posted on 03/02/2018 9:50:25 PM PST by Architect of Avalon
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23 posted on 03/02/2018 9:54:06 PM PST by blam
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To: blueplum

Now I remember where I left them.


24 posted on 03/02/2018 9:55:01 PM PST by heights
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To: rktman

forget the killer whales - don’t tell the seals!

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141117-why-seals-have-sex-with-penguins


25 posted on 03/02/2018 9:57:02 PM PST by blueplum ( "...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017)
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To: ifinnegan
Exactly. Poor polar bears on their tiny melting icebergs.

(Fixed it.. ;-)

26 posted on 03/02/2018 9:57:48 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: blueplum

They are endangered as they are high in vitamin C. where else can you get it in the Antarctic? No citrus trees!


27 posted on 03/02/2018 10:04:27 PM PST by Tuketu (The Dim Platform is splinters bound by crazy glue. TRUMP is the solvent.)
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To: blueplum
Can't have a penguin thread without this....
28 posted on 03/02/2018 10:10:14 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Reno89519
Do they taste like chicken or fish?

Like oily Spotted Owl.

29 posted on 03/02/2018 10:30:29 PM PST by spokeshave (FBI = Feral Bureau of Insurrection)
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To: blueplum

“A thriving “hotspot” of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, surprised scientists said Friday.”


How any dumber the lying media’s propaganda could be???
The penguins are at the tip of the peninsula, the most accessible area of Antartica. And the “settled science” just discovers them now, millions of them!


30 posted on 03/02/2018 10:46:19 PM PST by miniTAX (au)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

[[And who cries for the krill?]]

Krillery Clinton?


31 posted on 03/02/2018 10:56:49 PM PST by Bob434
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To: ifinnegan

1.5 million penguins discovered on remote Antarctic islands
Or as killer whales, leopard seals, polar bears are thinking: Snacks


32 posted on 03/02/2018 11:14:11 PM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Crucial
Say it like this:


33 posted on 03/02/2018 11:35:22 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: Architect of Avalon

The Danger Islands, said the team, has felt the ravages of climate change less than the western peninsula, and knew very little human activity.

Now it turns out, the area may need stronger protection from overfishing.

In the west Antarctic, Adelie penguins are in decline due to sea ice melt blamed on global warming

In the west Antarctic, Adelie penguins are in decline due to sea ice melt blamed on global warming

“The most important implication of this work is related to the design of Marine Protected Areas in the region,” said Lynch.

“Now that we know this tiny island group is so important, it can be considered for further protection from fishing.”

In addition to Adelies, the team also found about 100 nests of gentoo penguins, and about 27 nests of chinstrap penguins.

The polar regions are warming more rapidly than the rest of Earth as heat-trapping greenhouse gasses from fossil fuel-burning build up in the atmosphere.


34 posted on 03/02/2018 11:39:13 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (President Trump divides Americans . . . from anti-Americans.)
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To: ifinnegan

Cooked penguins? You want fries with them?


35 posted on 03/02/2018 11:47:50 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: dfwgator
That's my all-time favorite!
36 posted on 03/02/2018 11:51:39 PM PST by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: Cats Pajamas
I was reading something about some plant that was endangered - with only a handful left in North America. Up at the family cabin there are bogs with tons of them. I mentioned that to an acquaintance that worked with the National Forest Service or something.

“Yeah - the folks that do those studies just don't know where to look.”

37 posted on 03/02/2018 11:58:30 PM PST by 21twelve
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To: blueplum
A thriving "hotspot" of 1.5 million Adelie penguins, a species fast declining in parts of the world, has been discovered on remote islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, surprised scientists said Friday.

Well, now they know where they went!
38 posted on 03/03/2018 12:02:45 AM PST by Trillian
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To: blueplum

Reminds me back in the 1980s, the environazis around Austin were in a hysteria about the golden-cheeked warbler and the black-capped vireo, two bird species they claimed were dying off and would go extinct if all construction in a wide swath of North Austin and suburbs halted immediately.

This went on for 3-4 years until a team at Texas A&M discovered that the warblers and vireos were having their nest stolen by blue jays and reacted by moving deeper into the pristine forests - where environazis don’t apparently go.

So, the environazis changed tune and instead of demanding all construction be stopped about the songbirds, they demanded all construction be stopped because of some endangered salamanders.

It didn’t work. You cry wolf enough times and eventually even the lay people figure it out.


39 posted on 03/03/2018 1:05:58 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Donald Trump: Doing the work American politicians just won't do.)
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To: blueplum

There goes the neighborhood...

You find a perfect island somewhere with no liberals on it so you can raise your family in peace, and before long the liberals still manage to seek you out. Now they’ll be going after your kids your to apply indentifiers like wingbands and other crap and making nuisances of themselves until you can find another island to get some momentary peace...


40 posted on 03/03/2018 1:49:58 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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