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The creepy sexual depravity of Adelie penguins is one of science’s dirty little secrets

If you’ve seen Happy Feet or March of the Penguins, you know Adelie penguins as adoring, loving and determined birds. But they’re also incredibly weird, sexually. So much so that George Murray Levick, an explorer with the 1913 Scott Antarctic Expedition, was so horrified by the whole thing, he wrote his findings in ancient Greek so he wouldn’t have his gentlemanly British friends read it.

Penguins fly through the water like little rocket torpedos

When penguins are being chased by something big and hungry, their go-to escape maneuver is to make for the surface and launch themselves up and out of the water and on to land (or ice). In some cases that means flying two or three meters up into the air. This is an impressive trick, and the BBC got a lot of cool footage of it as part of The Blue Planet series.

Daily cuteness: This penguin is a fucking asshole

Penguins. Can’t trust ‘em.

Giant prehistoric penguins stood nearly five feet tall

Modern penguins are fairly harmless, medium sized birds that waddle around the southern part of the planet. But about 25 million years ago, in what is now New Zealand, giant penguins roamed around. These five foot tall birds were the terror of the southern hemisphere… nah, just kidding. They were tall, but probably just as harmless.

IHCer short film of the day: “Zombie in a Penguin Suit”

An eerily creepy yet extremely comical short film with zombies. Imagine being attacked by a Zombie in a Penguin Suit.

posted 14 October, 2011
by TheGooglySmoog
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Happy Feet the penguin may have been eaten…

I’m sure that will make a great sequel! Thus ends another tale of good intentions, as scientists released a penguin back into the wild only to see it get eaten. Nature’s a whore like that. Takes hat off for a brief moment of mourning… sniff.

Caption This: These penguin pushers

We don’t do a whole lot of caption things here, and maybe we should do more, but this photo of three penguins on the South Georgia Islands just screams to be captioned.

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Cookie the baby penguin loves to be tickled

Holy fuck, I think that thing just made a noise so cute that I may have started to lactate.

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Noooooo don’t do it penguin! You have so many penguin things to live for!

Penguin thinks sea lion is a rock

As much as I would have loved to have seen the sea lion eat the penguin for his rude transgression, the “I will fucking end you” facial expression is good enough, I suppose.

posted 03 January, 2011
by cranberryzero
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Penguins have a bit of a dilemma

What the hell penguins? You plunge face first in freezing cold water without a problem and suddenly you’re faced with two inches of water and you’re all like fuuuuck that?

posted 21 December, 2010
by cranberryzero
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Penguin people take over the world! Noooo!

Yeah, penguins are cool and all, but seriously… get a grip.

Tinypenguininja, a rival approaches: Meet TINY JAPANESE PIPE-SMOKING ROBOT PENGUIN

I can understand why someone would want to build a penguin robot, but the pipe… the pipe is just fucking inspired. And it’s HIGH QUALITY.

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posted 21 October, 2010
by cranberryzero
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Google Street View comes to Antarctica

Good news if you need to look for a particular penguin nest that isn’t showin up on your GPS— Google Street View is officially now on all seven continents. The photo above is of a group of beautiful chinstrap penguins just chillin’ and being all chinstrappy. Lo! I think I see one that’s tiny and ninja-like.

(Source: googleblog.blogspot.com)