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Pants On Fire
"royal penguins" Discussed on Pants On Fire
"A character in the mercy. Watson books named francine and i love mercy watson. That's a good reason. I suppose all right oliver. Your first question will go to francine what is a typical day at work for you. Okay usually when i get to the aquarium. It involves checking in on the penguins who we've already paired and their chicks. You know taking their temperatures as well as any changes or the consistencies in their environment. As part of our goal is to create the right environment or move for these birds to create relationships that will lead to ensuring their population. I'd like to a little bit more about this. So you are introducing penguins to each other so that they can make families. How do you go about doing that right. So basically what we're doing is trying to match penguins and they don't always want to match but Eventually that usually do interesting fact. Penguins don't actually mate for life but it doesn't mean they don't still have preferences For for each other. See and would you say you. Can you tell if a relationship is going to work out or can you tell right away. If they're not getting along you can tell so like One example would be when one of our penguins. Frankie was bonding with the bird name. Sandra they took their nesting too far. And i i don't know if you know this bet. When couples nest they hoard rocks to protect their nests. All couples not just not just the penguin up and they started hoarding rocks from around the exhibit. Ooh yeah so that wound up actually crushing some of their eggs and so noon. I know one of the things we had to do was create a nesting box and a few token rocks. And once we did that they turned out to be really great parents. So you know they they do have their own personalities and it's kind of fascinating jaros. What are being wins personalities. Like that are happy to answer that. Because i think things have lots of personalities. Some penguins are very shy penguin colony yellow eyed penguin in new zealand. That runs away from you. You get anywhere near outages. They'll just go and run away and then there's another kind of penguin. Call the royal penguin. That is the most curious penguin of all in there on another island almost in antarctica. And they'll come right up to you if you walk down the beach. I've had fifty of them. Walking on the beach. Felt like i was there royal penguins and i felt like i was a king of the royal penguins being when they're very wonderful. The emperor penguins. They'll never very curious they come right up to you. I've actually had emperor. Penguins climb on top of me while i was lying on the ice at school. Did they just think you were a speed bump or something like that. Well i think they're curious and they want to figure out who you are and so they come up in ten pekka you poke at your boots and i happen to be lying down on the ice photographing a different penguin and it jumped up on my boots. Wow it must be very curious to meet. Yeah will they don't see people very often so in fact we were wearing colors. That looked a lot like. There's will kind of yellow jackets with black hands. And i think they may have thought we were kind of strange mutant penguins or something find out. Where were you know someone needed that. I guess are seeing wins. There are mutant penguins. There's one that was just discovered this month on south georgia islands in king penguin. Normally they're gray and black with white tummies orange highlights but it's all white with a kind of yellow body. It's a strange strange penguin. Wait does this. Mean that. Ari beauty bigwood with digest. But what is there one. This is for seen sometimes. The most can be messy. What is grossing that ever happened to. You said this was really early on training. I was an intern over at the smithsonian zoo and i was in charge of cleaning the penguin habitat and the penguins. Were really cute and i had just read this paper. How penguins really like human contact. So i went to hug. One of the pink wins but Again this was very early in my career. And i wasn't aware that it was multi pain and i you know i just going to say. I learned some really valuable lessons about what. The penguin body secretes during their multi process. And that was that was pretty chris. there's ooh what happened while the actual multi process this is this is weird is called catastrophic team which i think will help you imagine how gross it might be The ra lot of of the feathers and there was a smell that took a really long time to get out of my hair and my clothes. It wasn't it wasn't go. Have you ever been tricked by pain and high school right. You wanna hear this. High school tanglin came out to me and said hey lisa. We want you to be on the cheerleading team. Great i love cheerleading. Went there after school and guess what. It wasn't the cheerleading team. It was the cheer booing team the team. I don't like that and don't trust. Penguins story is horrible. I yes yes believe everything you hear from pain. Have i know it might not be the case but have either view experts ever been tricked by penguin. I have to think about that. And yes i think in a way i could say i was tricked by penguin. Okay one time africa. We were working with baby. Penguins lever wayne them and measuring them. The baby african penguin and you have to be careful with them. Because they'll try to bite you and things like that when they don't want you to hold them and they'll try to slap you with their flippers. So i was watching those. But what i didn't realize is that their number one weapon is it. They'll aim their bottom at you and coupons color. Diphu her question. It was fish colored because it's long stinky street. they're able to projectile poop. They can shoot their poop. Four feet in distance so they really are good shots with poop. Shall we move onto the next question. I don't think we can but we can try to come back from that one. This is for both of you. What is your favorite kind of being winning. Why he wants to start. or why. don't i start okay. My very very favorite is a chick. An emperor penguin chick. Because i think they're the cutest animal babies in the world. They haven't all fussy gray body and they have a black cap that looks like a helmet white cheeks with big black eyes and it looks like they're wearing jammies. That's cute my favorite is the mantle. Corean pink win and they are.
The Children's Hour
"royal penguins" Discussed on The Children's Hour
"Guests differ yellow gold. Right here on the children's hour with penguin day. We're talking with dr charles bergman. He is a penguin expert. Dr bergman you mentioned earlier how the females go away and leave for nine weeks and then they come back and when we see penguins. We certainly can't tell them apart from one another but they mate for life so in the sea of thousands of penguin dads and their eggs. The penguin mom knows exactly which chick is her check. And which mate is her mate a miracle. Actually when you think about it how do they tell king. Penguins have colonies of two hundred fifty thousand pairs. That's like a big human city and the chicks don't have ness they wander around so it'd be like being in a big city only you don't have a house so your parents will go off to work and they come back and you aren't in a house they've gotta find you. You could have gone anywhere. You could walk down the street three blocks. He could have gone off to see your grandma or something like that. How are they gonna find. You can guess how the penguins find each other in those circumstances. They know they're made song so they talk to their children when they know their mates voice so follow their mates voice very good very very good. That is exactly right. How many miles cannot pink rinse rams. They can swim a long way. For example there's one species of england. The fiordland crested penguin which is in new zealand. And it messed in a rainforest actually doesn't rest nest in snow Rainforest in seventy nine nest in trees. They're like little hobbits in the forest. When you say them but nobody knew where they went they would leave in december and they would be gone till the next june and nobody knew where they win and so they put these little satellite recorders on them and they followed them and they found that they they almost all the way to tasmania across the tasman ocean. It's hundreds and hundreds of miles and in fact they can swim about fifty miles a day and they're gone for months swimming about fifty miles a day. Is they're going after this break seating area so it's really quite amazing. Well you have seen so many different things with these eighteen species of penguins. How are they different from one. Another and how are all penguins exactly alike. Well not different from each other in that. Of course they have different physical characteristics. Their groups of them actually came penguin. An emperor penguin there are crested. Penguins ones with the yellow feathers on their heads becomes fiscus. Penguins temperate zone penguins the ones at the white and black stripes and then a couple of others that don't sit category Easily but they different personalities which i think is kind of fun as a couple species that are quite shy and will run away from you in high at the slightest movement that they see in you and there are some species like the royal penguin Incredibly friendly when i would get off abode visit them on the beach. There were fifty of them would crowd around and they would gather all around. Look at my camera and come right up and look at me and even climb on top of. Nfc walked down the beach Fifty penguins gathered around you in a big parade. You and the penguins. So they're they're different in personality as well as some of their physical characteristics but they all share the same thing they all are birds that do not fly. It's the only bird in the world that does not fly in they swim. They doubted for swimming. And they're underwater. Birds are penguins endanger will. Yes they are and they need our help very much. They need us to be attention to them. Eighteen species ten species are considered in danger of extinction so that means more than of all species are endangered in another four are considered near endangered. Which is another way of saying they kind of on the way toward endangerment things don't change we have to be careful ourselves about what we do because what we do affects their ability to survive even though they all live in a different hemisphere. No they all live far far away from us for example. There's a lot of fishing that goes on in the southern ocean because there's not much fishing the rest of the world now we've exhausted the In every time we take huge cloudy of fish out of the seven ocean. It makes it harder and harder for the for the penguins to survive. There's another big problem for penguins. And that's called climate change. And that's heating up. The oceans and penguins need cold water to survive and as the oceans heat up it just makes it harder and harder for penguins to ride. What can we do help. Penguins not go extinct one of the most important things you can do is to be careful when you buy when your parents by fish tell them to buy sustainably grown stace. It's very important because otherwise we're really making it almost impossible for penguin babies to grow up to adults. The kind of fish we eat is probably one of the important things in the other thing is to try to reduce our impact on climate change. Because that says huge huge problems. That's doctor charles bergman. We've posted a lot of links at children's.