Penguin Airstrikes!
The Telegraph reports that a colony of flying penguins has been spotted, confirming Darwin's theory of evolution. Or disproving it. Or something.
Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.
The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: "We'd been watching the penguins and filming them for days, without a hint of what was to come.
"But then the weather took a turn for the worse. It was quite amazing. Rather than getting together in a huddle to protect themselves from the cold, they did something quite unexpected, that no other penguins can do."
We here at Blue Crab Boulevard are happy to report that we have discovered a colony of car-sized rats which we have dispatched to King George Island to eat the flying penguins. One has to keep nature in balance, after all. Flying penguins would give the seagulls an inferiority complex.
By Sam Wah, Tuesday, 1 April , 2008 @ 10:49 pm
I see they have a very high wing loading, but they flap "fast like bees", so this works well for them.Rats? You, sir, are a cur. These are some of the most magnificent birds in the world. For shame!!Incidentally, I ran across a web site that said a polar bear can eat 42 penguins a day. Probably can’t catch these, though.
By martian, Wednesday, 2 April , 2008 @ 11:16 am
What implications does this have for the Animal Uprising? Are they developing a tuxedoed air attack squadron?
Sam, I wonder how someone determined that Polar Bears, who live exclusivlely in the arctic regions of the northern hemisphere, can eat 42 penguins, an animal exclusive to the southern hemisphere, a day? Was someone at a zoo somewhere feeding the bears with the birds? Don’t let the animal rights people know! You know how lacking in scientific curiosity they are in such matters.