when was the penguin first discovered by the western world and recognized as an animal?
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"Penguins were first discovered in 1520 during Magellan’s circumnavigation; the expedition historian, Pigafetta, called them “strange geese”..."\n\nAlso: "Emperor penguins were discovered over 100 years ago by Johann Reinhold Forster, a naturalist who lived from 1729-1798. Aptenodytes forsteri, the scientific name of Emperor penguins, was derived from Johann Forster's name."
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Not true in either case.  I don't know where the myth came from (with Penguins, it's probably because they mostly mate with one partner seasonally).  You may want to read the source book.
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You can tell because you always... hey have you ever noticed how blue the sky man my Coke tastes great. How the hell did penguins find Antarctica in the first place?\n\nSorry... what?
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Dogs with penguins at a close second...something about the way they waddle around...it's pretty cute.
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Nothing that was fully aquatic, but penguins, puffin relatives, fulmars, ducks, and many other sea birds would have evolved by then.\n\nIf you are referring to plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, etc., they weren't dinosaurs and were long extinct by the time mammoths came around.
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A monkey but if i could choose i would say a penguin. PENGUIN
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Penguins, like other flightless birds (ostriches and emus) evolved from birds that could fly.\n\n65 million years ago the ancestors of today's penguins flew over the ocean and dove down into the water for food.\n\nOver millions of years, their hollow bones became solid and they could no longer lift themselves out of the water to fly. But, their heavier bones made is easier for them to dive down into the water.
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Yes, I agree.  So are the Penguins.  \nOilers rock!    lol....
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The first zoos were private menageries, usually belonging to monarchs. King Charles I of England established a zoo with a large python as the main attraction. The first public zoo was established in Vienna in 1752, when the Habsburg emperors decided to grant public access to the former privately-owned Schönbrunn Palace menagerie, now called Tiergarten Schönbrunn Zoo Vienna. After the French Revolution, the Paris Zoo was opened to the public.
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Lesser penguins do, Mom, but Emperor Penguins don't.  They lost them over the billennia thru evolution, not ever having to kneel down to anyone.
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Britain / Australia (either is correct) - Whales - Fibres from Flax - Farming - Gold - Thames - Food - Sheep....\n\nAny other homework you need doing????
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The dodo or dronte (scientific name Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird native only to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The dodo was a flightless member of the pigeon family. Fully grown dodos weighted about 23 kg (50 pounds). Around 1505 the Portuguese became the first Europeans to discover the dodo. By 1681 it had been driven to extinction by humans and the feral dogs, pigs, rats, and monkeys introduced by Europeans to Mauritius. The dodo was not the only Mauritian bird driven to extinction in recent centuries. Of the 45 bird species originally found, only 21 still survive. Two bird species closely related to the dodo also became extinct: the Reunion solitaire by 1746, and the Rodrigues solitaire by 1790. Reports of sightings of living dodos in the 1990s on Mauritius prompted William J. Gibbons to mount expeditions to search for them. None were found.
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I don't think they are strictly male....rather a type of penguin.  Check out the link:
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On your knees Penguin!
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a penguin with 1 foot
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i like the koala too, but the penguin is my favorite.... :D
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Supposedly, we are the most advanced animal upon this planet but, after reading some postings here on YahooAnswers I am starting to doubt that theory...\n...I am starting to feel that, even the penguins are more sensible than we, the homo sapiens, are...