Macaroni Penguins get their name from the long, orange, yellow, and black feathery crests above their eyes. They were named after “macaroni dandies,” whose hairstyle was fashionable in the 18th century.
What is your theory on penguins?
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I love penguins and this was adorable!
Your last two posts about penguins made me smile from ear to ear.
Thank you so much!
Well, you asked.
My theory on penguins dovetails with my theory on other animals such as horses/zebras, lemurs/racoons, cheetahs/leopards, etc., etc. etc. I'll need to lay out *my theory* of the post-Flood world to convey it. Obviously I can't back any of this up, and it won't be exhaustive.
-The "ice age" was a result of the Flood, and the reason the ark landed when it did was because the massive polar ice caps had locked up enough water to expose land bridges between all of what we now call "continents". These land bridges might have been exposed for decades, centuries, or longer.
-People and animals would have been able to migrate, on foot or wing, anywhere in the world that wasn't covered in ice, and they did.
-Populations of different people and animals went their separate ways occasionally, case in point, puffins. I.e., different families of puffins migrated in different directions and ultimately ended up in different parts of the world.
-The puffins that ended up in the southern hemisphere, for whatever reason, had nothing to eat except whatever they could fish from the seas, so they adapted to their marine environment. Their anatomy necessarily developed such that they had to swim and dive to survive and ultimately lost their ability to fly. They became penguins. This is over decades or hundreds of years, not millions.
-After decades (or whatever) of what could be called "global thawing", the aforementioned land bridges became submerged, the different populations of these now-penguins became isolated from each other, and they further adapted to their respective environments resulting in the many different sizes and shapes of penguins that exist today.
-Conclusion: Puffins and penguins were originally the same kind of birds, but have since diverged into completely different species and sub-species of birds that are no longer able to produce offspring with puffins.
*Most of this I learned from watching Kent Hovind's video "The Hovind Theory", and I filled in some of the blanks on my own, but I want to give credit where credit is due. Like Brother Hovind says, you can learn something from everybody, just eat the meat and spit out the bones.
hmm Puffins...
I don't think I've ever seen one..where do they live?
In the Penguin book of Penguins it just stated that Penguins origins are 65 million years ago, and also that they 'lost their ability to fly' even though they practically fly through the water.
Its also stated that..there are 18 different species of penguin officially recognised, but puffin is not on that list. Also it gives the latin names, but I've returned it to the library so I can't look up what they are in that book.
The penguins esp the Emporer and King are now endangered because of climate change. Scientists are not sure if they'll be able to adapt to all the ice melting, since they live on it and rely on it for breeding, plus the change in food availabilty.
And..it seems humans are harvesting their main food now, which is krill.
Scientists keep saying and warning that they are all going to be extinct by 2050 or so but then they say that about practically every wild animal...
I don't think I've ever seen one..where do they live?
In the Penguin book of Penguins it just stated that Penguins origins are 65 million years ago, and also that they 'lost their ability to fly' even though they practically fly through the water.
Its also stated that..there are 18 different species of penguin officially recognised, but puffin is not on that list. Also it gives the latin names, but I've returned it to the library so I can't look up what they are in that book.
The penguins esp the Emporer and King are now endangered because of climate change. Scientists are not sure if they'll be able to adapt to all the ice melting, since they live on it and rely on it for breeding, plus the change in food availabilty.
And..it seems humans are harvesting their main food now, which is krill.
Scientists keep saying and warning that they are all going to be extinct by 2050 or so but then they say that about practically every wild animal...