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Dogs that protect little penguins (2015)
- m_herrlich 8y agoaww
- p1mrx 8y agoCould you imagine living with a creature 10+ times your size who keeps you alive? It's basically The Iron Giant in nature.
- thaumasiotes 8y ago> Could you imagine living with a creature 10+ times your size who keeps you alive? So, a child with a parent?
- p1mrx 8y agoThat's a reasonable analogy, yes.
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- dwd 8y agoI quite enjoyed the movie: Oddball, though definitely biased as I grew up in Warrnambool. Every scene was a familar place but weirdly shuffled. You used to have to wade out to the island when I lived there in the mid 90's. Even back then they tried to cull the foxes around the surrounding sand hills and Lake Pertobe but it was never effective.
- Syzygies 8y agoI'm baffled why they didn't just dredge the channel to make it a few feet deeper, keeping the foxes from crossing?
- barry-cotter 8y agoThe foxes know the penguins are there now and they’re perfectly capable of swimming across a ten metre channel for some food. Also, dredging would need to be repeated every ten years minimum. The dogs may be cheaper as well. Dog food is cheap.
- lultimouomo 8y agoHow is dredging a channel an easier, cheaper or more intuitive way than a dog to keep foxes away?
- Zenbit_UX 8y agoFoxes can swim?
- ahoy 8y agoSending your dog out there occasionally seems monumentally cheaper and easier than dredging
- Nerada 8y agoI was unaware they were no longer called Fairy Penguins.
- neuronexmachina 8y agoFun fact, one of these were actually Linus's inspiration for the Linux penguin mascot: https://web.archive.org/web/20060507115127/http://www.linux.org.au/linux/tux https://web.archive.org/web/20060507115127/http://www.linux....
- emiliobumachar 8y agoAnyone could clarify what's politically incorrect about that name? English is not my native language.
- iguy 8y agoThe word is occasionally used to mean gay, although the meaning of small imaginary creatures is still much more common.
- MisterTea 8y agoSource: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615908/posts http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615908/posts tl;dr Someone dolt at the Queensland zoo thought fairy penguin would offend the gay community so they changed the name to little penguins. The gay community responded to the change calling it ridiculous. No one was offended. It was NOT an issue but merely and amusing footnote. Why the BBC author chose to dredge up a 13 year old political non issue is beyond me.
- mdekkers 8y agoWe have a Maremma, as do some of our friends. They are incredibly dogs, extremely smart and independent. Also stubborn.
- ivanhoe 8y agoif only English didn't bring the foxes to Australia...
- Ntrails 8y agoObviously yes, but heck if only humans had never gone to Australia in the first place it would still be populated by innumerable species that simply no longer exist. We were destroying ecosystems long before there was anything that could reasonably be called a nation state.
- caf 8y agoThe foxes weren't any kind of accident or incidental to human arrival though - they were deliberately introduced so that fox hunting could be engaged in!
- OJFord 8y agoThe combustion engine was deliberately mass produced for vehicles so that people could move faster!
- caf 8y agoIn my opinion there's a relevant distinction between the development of a technology that caused incidental and largely unforeseen environmental degradation, and an act of deliberate alteration of the environment that resulted in entirely foreseeable degradation.
- cushychicken 8y agoWhy don't the dogs kill the penguins?