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Penguin Protectors!

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35039105

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fewer than 10

"Welcome... to Super Inbred Penguin Island."

🎵DOO DOO DOO doo doo🎵

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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!
  
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  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/17/a-penguins-best-friend-guard-dogs-needed-to-save-middle-island-colony-from-foxes
  
  4 apparently.
  
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oddball_(film)

This movie is about this very thing. Pretty cute story.

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- Oh shit any good?
  
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  It’s a cute family film. I enjoyed it
  
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They're all good dogs, Brent.

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Whozzagoodpups!!

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RIP foxes

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- 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.
  
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  Good point.
  
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- 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.
  
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What do you do?

We watch penguins fuck.

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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/

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Seems like that would cause a lot of inbreeding problems.

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How are the dogs surviving / getting fed?

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- Fox meat.
  
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  Penguin babies
  
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- 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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This is how that futurama episode started.... I'll get my club

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Why can't this thread stop talking about penguin incest?

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- It must have happened
  
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  But why is that important? Is Penguin God upset about this? How many followers of Penguin God are in the thread?
  
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Now they have grown in numbers its time for them to eat the dogs

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- As long as nobody arms the penguins we'll be fine.
  
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  2
  
  https://youtu.be/QOZl1GUdN2w?si=Zuot8kirNd8yDyIY
  
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They're Patous aren't they

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- Nope, Maremmas.
  
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  Got a little Great Pyr look to them
  
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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.

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- 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.
  
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  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.
  
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- Humans don’t live on Middle Island. Foxes occasionally travel there during low tides.
  
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