Emperor penguin waddles up to surfer at Western Australian beach
November 5, 2024 7:25 AM   Subscribe

 
"Oi, can y'all turn down the frigging heat? This is bullshit. Does it look like I can just take off a layer or three? Huh?"
posted by jzb at 7:41 AM on November 5, 2024 [2 favorites]


I hope the penguin is OK!
posted by limeonaire at 8:24 AM on November 5, 2024 [4 favorites]


Thanks to this post I learned how to tell King and Emperor Penguins apart.
posted by indianbadger1 at 8:27 AM on November 5, 2024 [2 favorites]


He was supposed to make a left turn at Antarctiquerque.
posted by robotmachine at 8:34 AM on November 5, 2024 [18 favorites]


Probably swam along a stream of cold, fresh meltwater near the surface of the ocean — a stream which wouldn’t have existed prior to global warming.
posted by jamjam at 11:18 AM on November 5, 2024


Trying to slide on sand... poor penguin.
posted by SPrintF at 1:43 PM on November 5, 2024


The start of the evolution of the duneguin!
posted by GenjiandProust at 1:46 PM on November 5, 2024 [1 favorite]


Good luck big pengweng!
posted by srboisvert at 3:25 PM on November 5, 2024


BUILD THE WALL!!1!
(sorry in advance)
posted by senor biggles at 3:44 PM on November 5, 2024


I'm still hung up on that the man who first spotted this penguin has the last name of Fowler. Yes, a penguin isn't a fowl but still, come on.
posted by edencosmic at 4:20 PM on November 5, 2024 [1 favorite]


"He just looked absolutely flawless."
posted by Francolin at 5:41 PM on November 5, 2024 [1 favorite]


Good grief. I just about pitched an infarction when I read this, as I thought that WA meant the State of Washington, a hard stone's throw from where I am in B.C., or America's toque.

As a sailor, water skier, Windsurfer, and snow-skier, I grasp the fact that pretty much all that stuff is over if freaking penguins are now padidilling around at these latitudes.

A tiny sigh of relief upon seeing that it was posted by the cassowary thrasher.
posted by PareidoliaticBoy at 6:23 PM on November 5, 2024 [1 favorite]


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