penguins moonshine ... Perpertrating paired pepper penguins in Peru pestering poodles, pinching Pasely Pink paper parasols. 000602 ... mmm my girlfriend thinks they are stealing her sanity..... i think she might be right 010326 ... ejo slide.. 011028 ... Casey One day they will rule the world 011028 ... Beniamino Penguins are a Pittsburgh hockey team. They are also funny little animals that don't mind that they're not really birds anymore; they just slip and slide and eat fish all day and mind the polar bears. 020324 ... bryanfrbs penguins are the linux mascot....linux is great.... 020325 ... blown cherry Penguin Prostitutes By Nature Australia Saturday, 1 Dec, 2001 . . . And if homosexual penguins weren't enough, how about penguins that prostitute themselves? Adelie Penguins on Ross Island have provided us with another first---the first time that a monogamous bird species has been caught having extramarital sex in return for material items. The currency, in this case, is stones. Fiona Hunter from the University of Cambridge (UK) and Lloyd Davis (as in 'fairy'-penguin fame; see above) witnessed paired females soliciting sex with unpaired males. Immediately after copulation, the female picked up one of his nest stones and carried it back to her own nest. Some females went through the courtship ritual, then up and left, with stone in beak, before the male had a chance to mount her. Some returned again and again, with one bird procuring a total of 62 stones within an hour. But what's so special about stones? Adelie Penguins use them to form a raised platform on which they lay their two eggs. This way, when the ice melts in spring, the nest is not inundated. And why are unpaired males so tolerant of these females' pebble-pinching ways, especially when they don't always get what they paid for? Hunter and Davis believe the males live in hope that they may eventually get to father an offspring, or, perhaps, that the female will return to settle down. Hunter, F.M. & Davis, L.S., 1998. Female Adélie Penguins acquire nest material from extrapair males after engaging in extrapair copulations. The Auk 115(2): 526--528. Related links Nature Australia Magazine 020325 ... continuous ache well damnit, 'slide' was the idea when i saw this link, but obviously we have another fight_club fan in the house. 020327 ... yummyC penguins are evil. which is, in fact, how I stumbled upon blather. I searched for evil penguins at yahoo and here is blather. wow. 020327 ... megan my favorite animla in the entire world! i could sit and stare at them for hours... i went to an aquarium once and smiled at them while they dove off a platform and shimmied their way back up to jump off again. it was so cute and entertaining. i wonder if they were watching me on the other side of that glass thinking i was cute and entertaining? my boyfriends showed me fight club and i fell in love with "slide..." it makes me so happy. :-) 021215 ... screwing for virginity slide is the only animal to ever be better than the caddy shack gopher. 021215 ... Whitechocolatewalrus Penguins waddle. I also like frank the evil bunny from Donnie Darko. 031110 ... sabbie there just arn't enough penguins to go around... and the 'feind 031111 ... spiffy they steal cheese. they are evil. they have stolen my sanity. and they will rule the world. any questions? 040607 ... dosquatch The last place I worked had penguins as the corporate mascot. You're right, they are evil. I'll never trust a penguin again. 040607 ... ferret they seem to have infected my filanges... 040607 ... spiffy that sounds disturbing 040609 ... andru235 tuxedos are sexy 050101 ... epitome of incomprehensibility There is a Far Side cartoon about a bunch of penguins; one is singing "I just got to be me!" Weird, but amusing. 051103 ... here mr_biggles 080808 what's it to you? who go blather from