Archive for July, 2006
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Welcome to the new home of Wally and Osborne, please change your bookmarks to:
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This actually begins a new storyline to find Wally and Osborne an actual home as opposed to just living randomly on the ice. I just thought it would be great to time it with them getting their new home on the web [...]
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As opposed to the emperor penguin that keeps its eggs on its feet out in the middle of the ice in winter, the adelie penguins build a nest of rock during the summer in places where the snow has receded. They actually build a little circle of rocks around themselves to keep the egg from [...]
Unlike the emperor penguins whose colonies literally cover each others backs (when they huddle during storms on the ice), the adelie do find safety in numbers but squabble over rocks and nesting sites. They build a little circle of rocks so their eggs cannot roll away and become victim to a skua and they lay [...]
Some colonies on some beaches just don’t have enough rocks of the right size to go around among adelie nests. So they swipe them from each other. I had mentioned how they will play clips of adelie’s doing this in documentaries and someone asked to see one so here you go. This is a clip [...]
As you saw in the video from my last post, the adelie penguins are pretty good at stealing rocks when the nest’s owner isn’t looking. But sometimes they can get into some nasty little spats over the rocks too. I’ll try and share some video footage of that next time. It’s kind of entertaining, especially [...]
Great googly eyes! I think I’ve grown fond of that pitiful little penguin, I decided to give him a few more appearances in the comic and just maybe I’ll bring him back from time to time… if you are able to tolerate looking upon him again.
What’s With the Updates?
I’d like to say that I’ve [...]