fewer than 10
“Welcome… to Super Inbred Penguin Island.”
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It’s a small enough number you think they could have just said exactly how many there were.
Fewer than 10 … So, 9? 8, perhaps? Surely not 7!
My god, that’s fewer than 5.
Also that’s getting really close to “Adam & Eve” level inbreeding. Those penguins have a family wreath, I wonder if they can develop a Hapsburg beak.
They’re all good dogs, Brent.
RIP foxes
The foxes are not native to Australia; they were introduced for fox hunting in the 1800s. That’s why the penguins are in such danger; they don’t have any evolved defense against the foxes.
I mean, the foxes would have also died shortly after consuming the last 10 penguins. Not like those last ten would be the feast that keeps that population going for centuries.
They’re Patous aren’t they
Nope, Maremmas.
Got a little Great Pyr look to them
Very similar looking breeds.
How are the dogs surviving / getting fed?
There is human interaction - it’s a program where the dogs are taken on and off the island daily.
Comedy movie Oddball told the story pretty well.
Nature conservation is strange. Foxes eating penguins is normal? Meanwhile they use dogs which will eat whatever animal then dies instead of those penguins.
It doesnt make sense, the only reasonable protection is removing humans.
Foxes are not native to that (uninhabited) island, nor are they native to Australia, which is where they crossed over to the island from. Foxes were brought to Australia in the 1870s by humans so we could hunt them recreationally, and now they are an invasive species. We can’t undo that mistake now.
Humans don’t live on Middle Island. Foxes occasionally travel there during low tides.
