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I see the ongoing slide into labelling anything mildy analytical as autistic is in full swing.
The penguins we know today are not actual penguins. They are named after the real penguins which were prevalent in the northern hemisphere but which humans drove to extinction.
Edit: the Great Auk
I don’t know if the page looks the same to others, but the bird that’s pictured under that fact is not a great auk, they really do look like penguins.
For the lazy:
If you’re referring to this little guy, he’s what I have to pay whenever I get new sneakers: my shoebill
Yeah, not sure why Encyclopedia Britannica would not just omit the correct picture but also put in a link to another article for a completely different bird with a picture!
What an appropriate username for a discussion of animals. Awesome.
beautiful plumage
Not exactly north pole.
I believe the geomagnetic pole falls somewhere in that region
Nope.
That’s a map of the magnetic “dip” pole not the geomagnetic pole. They are slightly different things.
I’m a bit out of my depth, so I’m not gonna try to explain the distinction because I don’t really understand it very well myself, it’s just a fun fact I picked up somewhere.
But AFAIK, the geomagnetic pole is still supposed to be somewhere around Canada/Greenland
Also, not for nothing, but those are two different map projections so with how things get distorted around the poles in the OPs map,it’s a little hard to directly compare them. Remember that with cylindrical projections the whole top edge of the map basically represents a single point (the geographic north Pole) so things are often a lot closer together than they may look on the map. Just from eyeballing the two maps as an amateur who uses maps more than the average person but doesn’t exactly study them, I wasn’t 100% confident that the dip pole wasn’t in one of those higher spots of the puffin’s range (it’s not, I confirmed on a couple other maps, but it’s closer than you might think just from casually looking at these two maps.)
mapswithoutNZ
Above the Arctic Circle at least.
Puffins are penguins if they didn’t give up on the whole flight thing
What has the north pole to do with Christmas? Santa lives in Rovaniemi, Finland. Jesus was born in the middle east. Presents are made in China. Your house is whatever it is, surely not on the north pole.
Santa essentially has teleportation. Space is meaningless to the entity we know as Santa.
Puffins are cuter, usually less, ahem, fragrant, too.
Aren’t they only called penguins because of their resemblance to the now extinct great Auk, a Northern pole bird? Which would justify the attachment to the North pole and Santa?
Great phylogenetics YouTuber discusses this very connection.
Well, Topper the penguin, did help Santa when he was trying to deliver his toys in Sombertown.
Snow and cold weather is christmasish to me
If ranting about cultural associations of animals makes me autistic, I don’t want to be autistic!
