fewer than 10
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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.
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RIP foxes
I mean, the foxes would have also died shortly after consuming the last 10 penguins. Not like those last ten would be the feast that keeps that population going for centuries.
Good point.
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.
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/
What do you do?
We watch penguins fuck.
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.
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Seems like that would cause a lot of inbreeding problems.
Inbreeding isn’t an issue for many species the way it is for humans because they haven’t had as many genetic bottlenecks as we have. Look at cats for example.
This is how that futurama episode started… I’ll get my club
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.
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.
