Un pingüino travieso
December 14, 2013 • 3:05 pm
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
Why Evolution is True is a blog written by Jerry Coyne, centered on evolution and biology but also dealing with diverse topics like politics, culture, and cats.
My weak Portuguese tells me:
ahhhhhhh!!
son of a whore
I’ll get you, his horn (??)
Sorry, Uncle, sorry.
Very funny video;-)
Horn (corno) means lady penguin isn’t monogamous.
I thought it must mean something like that…
Elephant (?) Seal: in the name of Ceiling Cat!
Son of a bitch!
I’ll get you!
Gentoo Penguin: sorry uncle, sorry.
So funny! My favorite part is when the penguin stops and looks down, just before hopping onto the seal. “Should I or shouldn’t I? Oh, what the heck.”
He looks like he does a little extra bounce once on the seal too!
Got claws? Use them!
Sorry, but I’m having flashbacks to the “Alien” scenes in “Dark Star”, particularly the tickling scene.
Lol, pinguino give no fucks.
Hahahahaha!
Very funny! I wonder what species of seal it is, for if a Leopard Seal the ending might have been quite different. Also, any cat owner must have great sympathy for the seal, for a fully-grown kitty landing on your chest as a wake-up call, and always way in advance of feeding time…right?!
I think it’s a female Elephant Seal. Too small for a male, and the mouth and face are wrong, too large for any other seal I can think of.
First time through, I didn’t even realize that that boulder was alive until after the pingüino landed….
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I’m betting that penguin had really really cold feet – poor seal! 🙂
Why isn’t there snow on the ground?
Zoo?
That’s a gentoo penguin. They breed in ice and snow free areas.
The video has legends in Portuguese, it seems to have been made in Brazil. The title of the post is in Spanish so the translation wold be something like: Um pinguim sapeca.
Sapeca apparently means cheekt
Make that cheeky…
Merilee, we have African penguins here close to Cape Town, there are two breeding colonies, and you can swim in the sea with them.
It never snows here at sea level, only in the mountains.
I had no idea. I thought only in Antarctica.
There are penguins on the equator, in the Galápagos Islands.
There are penguins in New Zealand too – the cute little blues.
Oh, the things that we learn on this site;-))
But wiat – there’s more ! On the mainland we also have the much bigger yellow-eyed, and Fiordland crested penguins. Even more species when you consider the sub-Antarctic islands – NZ is quite the hotspot of penguin diversity.
The little blues are the cutest I think. I tried to see some at some locations where they live but never did. 🙁
not sure about portugese but in spanish ‘tio’ is used both for ‘uncle’ and also for dude, mate, pal etc. So the penguin probably isnt calling the seal ‘uncle’, but saying ‘sorry, mate, sorry!’
makes sense, and, absent some miscegenation, this cannot be a nephew/uncle relationship anyway- lol
The African Penguin used to be called the Jackass Penguin because it’s calling sound is similar to a donkey’s. As far as I know the Western Cape in South Africa is the only place where penguins colonise on the mainland.
The one colony a few years ago used to have the odd problem with a leopard coming down from the mountains and eating them, as they are very vulnerable in their burrows.
These days they are better protected and are quite a tourist attraction, as you can walk on the beach among them and swim with them freely in the ocean at the colony about 15 miles from Cape Town.
Cool, but they better watch out for them big kittehs! Seems so incongruous: penguins and leopards!
Han & Jabba.