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Penguins are a Christmas animal because they’re all catholic.
Aww, cute penguin feeding her young
What’s the clip from? Looks hilarious, curious to see more.
Blues Brothers. Legendary movie.
They’re on a mission from Gad.
If you’ve not seen the Blues Brothers go watch it right now. Order the DVD if you have to. Its absolutely worthwhile. Its an SNL spinoff film with a Legendary soundtrack featuring the biggest names in the Blues and Jazz scene. Great soundtrack, brilliant gags, incredible car chases and just a ton of rediculous chaos.
“We’re on a mission from god”
Aww, momma used to beat us the same way
I see the ongoing slide into labelling anything mildy analytical as autistic is in full swing.
Context is important. In this case, it wasn’t the place for that kind of analysis.
Although ironically it matches the meta-context perfectly (displaying signs of autism in an exam to detect autistism).
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I can’t say I’ve ever seen penguins in relation to christmas
I’m part of the problem. I have a penguin inflatable on my lawn. (I also have a dragon and a dinosaur, also not known for Christmas)
Apparently you haven’t seen the seminal classic from 2014, “The Christmas Dragon”. Lovingly covered by Mystery Science Theater 3000 in season 13 episode 13.
Just snagged the movie to watch next week
So, you’re telling us this but not sharing a pic?!
The latest Coca Cola slop ad probably.
I thought Coca Cola used polar bears
The latest slop ad has sloths and pandas. Don’t recall if it has penguins too but probably.
You don’t recall “Topper” from Santa Claus is Coming to Town?
First time hearing of santa claus is coming to town ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s a classic animated Christmas movie. I highly recommend.
Yes, but
Not sure I wanna know what comes out when you finally… um… … reach your peak.
According to any documentary about avian species, predigested fish for their young.
The dinosaur answer to mammalian milk.
Other way around.
“How do we give nutrition to our offspring without vomiting?” - mammals
Core dumps.
The penguins we know today are not actual penguins. They are named after the real penguins which were prevalent in the northern hemisphere but which humans drove to extinction.
Edit: the Great Auk
I don’t know if the page looks the same to others, but the bird that’s pictured under that fact is not a great auk, they really do look like penguins.
For the lazy:
If you’re referring to this little guy, he’s what I have to pay whenever I get new sneakers: my shoebill
Yeah, not sure why Encyclopedia Britannica would not just omit the correct picture but also put in a link to another article for a completely different bird with a picture!
What an appropriate username for a discussion of animals. Awesome.
beautiful plumage
Not exactly north pole.
To be fair, neither are reindeer IRL.
Santa’s sleigh should be pulled by 8 murderous polar bears.
Murderous flying polar bears.
It’s a ton better, you’re not going to get many that are literally at the North Pole.
Exactly. Ain’t nothin alive up there besides scientists running from student loan debt.
What limits their migration further north in western Eurasia?
Real estate prices.
But santa lives in Finland…
…And commutes to the North Pole workshop M W F and works from home on Tue and Thu. Try and keep up, OK?
🎵Rudolph with his nose so red, better run now or you’ll soon be dead🎶
Wasn’t that what the witch from Narnia did?
And Santa is a much more powerful demon. So that tracks.
I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region
Nope.
That’s a map of the magnetic “dip” pole not the geomagnetic pole. They are slightly different things.
I’m a bit out of my depth, so I’m not gonna try to explain the distinction because I don’t really understand it very well myself, it’s just a fun fact I picked up somewhere.
But AFAIK, the geomagnetic pole is still supposed to be somewhere around Canada/Greenland
Also, not for nothing, but those are two different map projections so with how things get distorted around the poles in the OPs map,it’s a little hard to directly compare them. Remember that with cylindrical projections the whole top edge of the map basically represents a single point (the geographic north Pole) so things are often a lot closer together than they may look on the map. Just from eyeballing the two maps as an amateur who uses maps more than the average person but doesn’t exactly study them, I wasn’t 100% confident that the dip pole wasn’t in one of those higher spots of the puffin’s range (it’s not, I confirmed on a couple other maps, but it’s closer than you might think just from casually looking at these two maps.)
mapswithoutNZ
Above the Arctic Circle at least.
Am I missing something? A few penguin references / associations with Christmas, sure I’ve seen that. But, at least in my part of the world, they’re not a major part of the lore – or am I having a moment?
Either way, this can be easily explained: It’s called being inclusive. The last thing you want is a north pole versus south pole world wide Christmas turf war, best to extend an olive branch andlean into that diversity and inclusion metric for the good of the world’s children and the fate of humanity.
In order to do that you’d need to get the branch from more temperate latitudes so in keeping with this thread here goes their approximate range:
I don’t know what those labels are, but they’re not latitude.
Oh that’s simple, instead of the standard latitude degrees to demarcate the Mediterranean climate zone, this diagram is measured in fahrenheit.
USA got pretty lucky there. Almost matches the borders.
I think it’s marketing overreach. christmas->snow->snow animals->penguins
I do find it strange that there are less polar bears than penguins in Christmas decorations in NA
Probably Coca-cola and its legal teams have some degree of responsibility for the minimal polar bear association.
Puffins are penguins if they didn’t give up on the whole flight thing
Santa essentially has teleportation. Space is meaningless to the entity we know as Santa.
Excuse me while I get mauled by a polar bear to get in the Christmas spirit.
What has the north pole to do with Christmas? Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Jesus was born in the middle east. Presents are made in China. Your house is whatever it is, surely not on the north pole.
Santa lives at North Pole, Canada. Poatal code H0H 0H0. You can write him a letter and he will reply.
Fake news! https://maps.app.goo.gl/2aYT9gQfh29zr8V58
You can’t fucking trust anyone anymore.
Puffin
Cormorant
Arctic tern
Common eider
King eider
White-tailed eagle
Kittiwake
Fulmar
Snow bunting
Northern gannet
Sanderling
Black guillemot
Brünnich’s guillemot
Little auk
Arctic skua
Long-tailed skua
Ptarmigan
Great northern diver
Red-throated diver
Glaucous gull
Lesser black-backed gull
Great black-backed gull
Ivory gull
Red phalarope (grey phalarope)
Pink-footed goose
Barnacle goose
Brant goose
Razorbill
Turnstone
https://oceanwide-expeditions.com/blog/22-enchanting-arctic-birds-and-their-most-fascinating-facts
The website has pictures.
Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.
Aren’t they only called penguins because of their resemblance to the now extinct great Auk, a Northern pole bird? Which would justify the attachment to the North pole and Santa?
Probably. Humans driving real penguins to extinction, travelling to the geographic south:
Eh, close enough. Tis a penguin.
Great phylogenetics YouTuber discusses this very connection.
Snow and cold weather is christmasish to me
