h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

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Thanks for this Webby, I enjoyed reading it. I'm not so much a penguin-nut as my daughter #2 is, but I do send her along anything penguin-related. I'll send her your Daily Mail link


GB

Fascinating! Thanks for writing this, Webbie!

Thanks both, I enjoyed writing it Not of edited guide standard but enough to awake a reader's curiosity I hope.

Working with WWF for twenty years I soon found the 'nuts about' people, and penguin fans were certainly in the top ten of favourites I think

Websailor

I also emjoyed reading this Websailor. Penguins are very interesting birds. I might some time write something about the extinct giant penguins! They were man-sized ... one of them was even called an 'Anthropornis' ('Man-bird'). They died out perhaps due to mammals like seals and small dolphins (in the same size range as the giant penguins and thus competing with them for food and ecological 'niches') becoming more common in the southern oceans. This was LONG before our time ... they died out perhaps over 20 million years ago.

please do!

Thanks. That's fascinating Willem, and I agree with GB, please do

Websailor