Magellanic penguins: among the most faithful couples in animal kingdom

Tuesday, January 8th 2019 - 09:15 UTC

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Mark Waghorn, writing for The London Economic, and based on a paper on Magellanic penguins published in the January edition of Current Biology, gives us access to some fascinating facts about this breed which is most common along the Atlantic Patagonia coast and the Falkland Islands. Read full article

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golfcronie
Unlike the human race
Jan 08th, 2019 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse -1
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Enrique Massot
@GC

Well...we are not birds, cronie. We are mammals, and as most mammals, we are not naturally monogamous.

Human monogamy is a social construction that had to be kept, at least in facade, through customs, government and/or religion.

Today, with less religious influence, marriages are a much more relative thing in comparison to a few decades ago.

For most of our evolution, we humans were in fact promiscuous like our cousins chimps and bonobos.
Jan 09th, 2019 - 05:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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golfcronie
I didn't know penquins fly!
Jan 09th, 2019 - 10:18 am - Link - Report abuse -1
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Think
Geeeeeeee....
What a Dodo that Burrowing Owl just above is...
Everybody knows that Penguins fly as goood as Emus...
Jan 09th, 2019 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Sinibaldi
La dimension d'un sentiment.

Je crois en
la douceur des
légères sensations,
et quand le
son disparaît en
donnant l'harmonie
de la fugitive
neige, j'appelle
la lumière...

Francesco Sinibaldi
Jan 10th, 2019 - 05:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Roger Lorton
Penguins certainly fly better than Argentina's sovereignty claims.
Jan 11th, 2019 - 05:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Enrique Massot
Apparently cronie's wisdom would require birds to fly if they want to belong to the species.

However, according to the Oxford dictionary, ”penguins are classified as birds (Aves) in zoological terms.“

”They are black and white flightless seabirds of the family Spheniscidae.”

Not everything that flies is a bird, cronie. Beware of flying pigs!
Jan 11th, 2019 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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