Penguin Watch Talk

Red shrimp, red krill, pink Flamingos, and penguins

by AvastMH moderator

Just to note an interesting thread on why penguins are not all over like flamingos - or is it 'why flamingos are not black and white'? 😃

Posted July 24, 2015 11:50 PM

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by AvastMH moderator

I so wish I was a cartoonist and could draw an elegant penguin version of the caryatids! 😄
So if you've read up on carotids you'll

Posted July 24, 2015 11:46 PM
by AvastMH moderator

have plenty of blood going to your brain to help your thought processes along (wink!) 😉 What yshish says is true and counts for

Posted July 24, 2015 11:46 PM
by AvastMH moderator

flamingoes as well 'As far as I know, the intensity of the red colouration of their beak is supposed to reflect their sexual attraction and

Posted July 24, 2015 11:46 PM
by AvastMH moderator

health condition.' But the flamingoes can afford to have a really dazzling show of how good they are at finding food (that's got to be a

Posted July 24, 2015 11:47 PM
by AvastMH moderator

real attraction for your partner!) by going pink all over. The penguins dare not.
The yellow in penguin feathers (think of our

Posted July 24, 2015 11:47 PM
by AvastMH moderator

Macaronis and Kings) is highly unusual - for more info, this article covers some of the science (it's

Posted July 24, 2015 11:47 PM
by coldcounter

(snicker) ... the vision of buxom penguins holding up the Acropolis .... I'd travel to Greece to see that !!! 😃 😃

Posted July 25, 2015 1:52 AM
by AvastMH moderator

It might solve many problems - the tourist rate would rise exponentially! 😄

Posted July 26, 2015 2:28 AM
by Motherjoanne

Penguins to the rescue!

Posted July 26, 2015 2:38 AM
by AvastMH moderator

Yeah! 😄 😄 ;D - see - I always say how talented our feathery friends are 😃

Posted July 26, 2015 2:41 AM