fewer than 10
"Welcome... to Super Inbred Penguin Island."
🎵DOO DOO DOO doo doo🎵
It's a small enough number you think they could have just said exactly how many there were.
Fewer than 10 ... So, 9? 8, perhaps? Surely not 7!
My god, that’s fewer than 5.
Also that’s getting really close to “Adam & Eve” level inbreeding. Those penguins have a family wreath, I wonder if they can develop a Hapsburg beak.
There are other colonies of these penguins, although their numbers have been declining all over Australia and New Zealand for a while now. In some areas they’ve dropped 70%, in others the colonies have been completely lost.
So it’s good that they have one safe space to breed at least.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddball_(film)
This movie is about this very thing. Pretty cute story.
Oh shit any good?
It’s a cute family film. I enjoyed it
They're all good dogs, Brent.
Whozzagoodpups!!
RIP foxes
The foxes are not native to Australia; they were introduced for fox hunting in the 1800s. That’s why the penguins are in such danger; they don’t have any evolved defense against the foxes.
What do you do?
We watch penguins fuck.
For anyone who's interested, there was a movie made that was loosely based on this story called Oddball: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3401748/
Seems like that would cause a lot of inbreeding problems.
How are the dogs surviving / getting fed?
Fox meat.
Penguin babies
There is human interaction - it's a program where the dogs are taken on and off the island daily.
Comedy movie Oddball told the story pretty well.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/P7AV2ZYlxvI?si=VeHhHHC6rY-SxT6P
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
This is how that futurama episode started.... I'll get my club
Now they have grown in numbers its time for them to eat the dogs
As long as nobody arms the penguins we'll be fine.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/QOZl1GUdN2w?si=Zuot8kirNd8yDyIY
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Nature conservation is strange. Foxes eating penguins is normal? Meanwhile they use dogs which will eat whatever animal then dies instead of those penguins.
It doesnt make sense, the only reasonable protection is removing humans.
Foxes are not native to that (uninhabited) island, nor are they native to Australia, which is where they crossed over to the island from. Foxes were brought to Australia in the 1870s by humans so we could hunt them recreationally, and now they are an invasive species. We can’t undo that mistake now.
We can’t undo that mistake now.
Haven't we gotten rid of invasive species on islands in the past? It takes time, money, and effort, but it seems like it could be done.
Yeah, unfortunately in this case the foxes can just walk over from the mainland when the tide is low
Humans don’t live on Middle Island. Foxes occasionally travel there during low tides.
Why can't this thread stop talking about penguin incest?
It must have happened
But why is that important? Is Penguin God upset about this? How many followers of Penguin God are in the thread?
It's usually bad because of the emergence of genetic diseases.
But extinction is bad too.
I mean yeah it's not an ideal situation for sure. I don't see any comments saying they shouldn't let the penguins reproduce though.
They're Patous aren't they
Nope, Maremmas.
Got a little Great Pyr look to them
Very similar looking breeds.
Welcome to Lemmy Be Wholesome. This is the polar opposite of LemmeShitpost. Here you can post wholesome memes, palate cleanser and good vibes.
The home to heal your soul. No bleak-posting!
1. Be Respectful
Refrain from using harmful language pertaining to a protected characteristic: e.g. race, gender, sexuality, disability or religion.
Refrain from being argumentative when responding or commenting to posts/replies. Personal attacks are not welcome here.
...
2. No Illegal Content
Content that violates the law. Any post/comment found to be in breach of common law will be removed and given to the authorities if required.
That means: -No promoting violence/threats against any individuals
-No CSA content or Revenge Porn
-No sharing private/personal information (Doxxing)
...
3. No Spam
Posting the same post, no matter the intent is against the rules.
-If you have posted content, please refrain from re-posting said content within this community.
-Do not spam posts with intent to harass, annoy, bully, advertise, scam or harm this community.
-No posting Scams/Advertisements/Phishing Links/IP Grabbers
-No Bots, Bots will be banned from the community.
...
4. No Porn/Explicit
Content
-Do not post explicit content. Lemmy.World is not the instance for NSFW content.
-Do not post Gore or Shock Content.
...
5. No Enciting Harassment,
Brigading, Doxxing or Witch Hunts
-Do not Brigade other Communities
-No calls to action against other communities/users within Lemmy or outside of Lemmy.
-No Witch Hunts against users/communities.
-No content that harasses members within or outside of the community.
...
6. No NSFW Content
-Content shouldn't be NSFW
-Refrain from posting triggering content, if the content might be triggering try putting it behind NSFW tags.
7. Content should be Wholesome, we accept cute cats, kittens, puppies, dogs and anything, everything that restores your faith in humanity!
Content that isn't wholesome will be removed.
...
8. Reposting of Reddit content is permitted, try to credit the OC.
-Please consider crediting the OC when reposting content. A name of the user or a link to the original post is sufficient.
...
Also check out:
Partnered Communities:
6.Jokes
...
Reach out to LillianVS for inclusion on the sidebar.
All communities included on the sidebar are to be made in compliance with the instance rules.
