tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11602875.post1381175291489076736..comments2024-03-28T18:33:42.689-04:00Comments on Colorless Green Ideas: Penguin, How would you know?turnerBroadcastinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09966930351554884742noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11602875.post-10543530705214927472007-08-01T13:00:00.000-04:002007-08-01T13:00:00.000-04:00You would hold on forever.You would hold on forever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11602875.post-8062842212956375332007-08-01T12:43:00.000-04:002007-08-01T12:43:00.000-04:00thanksthanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11602875.post-14438530111034899632007-08-01T12:24:00.000-04:002007-08-01T12:24:00.000-04:00Yep. Thats what she said last night.About penguins...Yep. Thats what she said last night.<BR/><BR/><BR/>About penguins and failure rates you are only telling half the story (favorite reader of mine).<BR/><BR/>Its not just the first attempt, its recurrent. And sometimes they actually breed so late that the attempt is doomed to fail.<BR/>But this is the only shot that a single mom or dad has to raise the chick so they do it anyway.<BR/><BR/><BR/>-=-<BR/>So the chick is dead. The male doesn't always release it and continues to care for it.<BR/><BR/>I bet the female nudges the male to let the chick go and eventually the male just realizes the chick is dead. Its kind of obvious once you break the pattern.<BR/><BR/>The total time required for all the things the penguins do, during mating season is in , by its schedule alone too much to fit into that season sothe complete breeding cycle is actually more than one year.<BR/><BR/><BR/>Normally critters follow the food. <BR/>I'm trying to hammer out the primitives here. The cycle for food would obviously be out there when its warm. Thats when they mate.<BR/><BR/>You know what would be an interesting question. I bet a male who won't let go of a dead chick is probably a male who wouldn't be a good dad to begin with.<BR/><BR/>I bet the secret is to develop a feel for it. To know when the egg is too cold or something and if you can't even know if the thing is dead, you're probably not going to know if its alive.<BR/><BR/>Of course you can still have the dad sitting there happily at home in that case. I'd just wonder if I'd be the one to say. Later bitch.<BR/><BR/>Or if I'd be the one to just hold on forever, hoping for life to come back into a dead chick.<BR/><BR/>Girlfriend in a coma. >.)turnerBroadcastinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09966930351554884742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11602875.post-1719754521631024962007-08-01T08:23:00.000-04:002007-08-01T08:23:00.000-04:00Fine. Here's a comment.This one was too long.Most ...Fine. Here's a comment.<BR/><BR/>This one was too long.<BR/><BR/>Most penguins fail their first or second attempt a chick rearing. Something happens in that 15 to 20 seconds. They learn and move on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com