Proper credit for penguins: credit cards and poo

Here are two drawing of penguins. One drawing is part of an ad for a credit card offered by CIBC, with the slogan “Unleash your sense of adventure. Aventura. The Traveller’s Travel Card.™” The other drawing is from the Ig Nobel Prize-winning biology research study “Pressures Produced When Penguins Pooh — Calculations on Avian Defaecation,” published in the journal Polar Biology, […]

That, and maybe why, some seals have sex with some penguins

Neighbors sometimes come together in unexpected ways. This study shows it happening with seals and penguins: “Multiple occurrences of king penguin (Aptenodytes patagonicus) sexual harassment by Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella),” William A. Haddad, Ryan R. Reisinger, Tristan Scott, Marthán N. Bester, P. J. Nico de Bruyn, Polar Biology, November 2014. (Thanks to David Delaney […]

Penguin sweater target reached

Thanks to generous contributions, the Penguin Foundation, of Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia, now no longer requires volunteers to knit sweaters for penguins. [that’s ‘jumpers’ in the UK, Australia, N.Z., Turks and Caicos, Bermuda, Jersey &etc.] “Please know that we do not urgently require little penguin jumpers for rehabilitation, we have a good supply of these […]