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Penguins on antidepressants

*crikey*mate* — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 03:57:29 GMT

Penguins on antidepressants

poor little sods.

I wonder how the ones in the wild are coping?

Do penguins migrate?

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zelly888 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:20:46 GMT

Me too

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channys_mum — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:34:31 GMT

The ones in the wild are living naturally so probably don't get depressed

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imastawka — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:35:47 GMT

The story is about the poor penguins trying to cope in English zoos.

Penguins are native to the southern hemisphere, rarely going further north.

I'm not surprised the ones in England have to have anti-depressants,

given the weather they have been having. I think I would need them too

in that weather.

As an aside, I went to Penguin in Tassie. They don't have any penguins

in Penguin : - )

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zelly888 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:49:07 GMT

It's not so much the weather in England that's the problem but more like the poor buggers just don't understand the twupcha language

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cherry*135 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:53:57 GMT

Pretty low temps, lack of sunshinedaylight in winter, in Antarctica. The penguin species there are in their natural habitat though.

The story in the opening post is about the constant storms/ wet weather in the UK that the penguins there, have to cope with.

Re: Penguins on antidepressants

imastawka — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 04:58:19 GMT

@am*3 wrote:
Pretty low temps, lack of sunshinedaylight in winter, in Antarctica. The penguin species there are in their natural habitat though.

The story in the opening post is about the constant storms/ wet weather in the UK that the penguins there, have to cope with.

But they live in the sea? Or at least get wet when they look for food.

At least they don't have killer whales using them for sport

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cherry*135 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:03:12 GMT

The lack of sunshine was the issue wasn't it? Too much stormy wet weather not enough sunshine.

Who knows exactly what the penguins are thinking

If they were returned to their natural habitat they would probably die wouldn't they, after being in captivity for a long time?

From the op link:

Crawford said the drugs are "doing the trick so far", but only an extended period of sunshine will "give the penguins the tonic they really need".

Unfortunately, it might be some time until the sun comes out.

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freakiness — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:04:34 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
The story is about the poor penguins trying to cope in English zoos.

Penguins are native to the southern hemisphere, rarely going further north.

I'm not surprised the ones in England have to have anti-depressants,
given the weather they have been having. I think I would need them too
in that weather.

As an aside, I went to Penguin in Tassie. They don't have any penguins
in Penguin : - )

Yes, they do. They have the little penguins and a concrete one 😄

Re: Penguins on antidepressants

cherry*135 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:04:52 GMT

Seasonal Affective Disorder .. who knew penguins can get that?

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*crikey*mate* — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:29:31 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
@am*3 wrote:
Pretty low temps, lack of sunshinedaylight in winter, in Antarctica. The penguin species there are in their natural habitat though.

The story in the opening post is about the constant storms/ wet weather in the UK that the penguins there, have to cope with.
But they live in the sea? Or at least get wet when they look for food.

At least they don't have killer whales using them for sport

LOL, all i can say is I wonder what brand of towels they use

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imastawka — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:35:54 GMT

The little penguins are further up the coast apparently

(so I was told by info centre) and yes, the BIG penguin.

Someone keeps dressing him up. So far he has been

Elvis, Superman and Santa

I did love him

Re: Penguins on antidepressants

cherry*135 — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:38:38 GMT

Cute penguin.

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freakiness — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:46:32 GMT

@imastawka wrote:
The little penguins are further up the coast apparently
(so I was told by info centre) and yes, the BIG penguin.
Someone keeps dressing him up. So far he has been
Elvis, Superman and Santa

I did love him

Penguin was named Penguin because of the little penguins that live there.

There are Penguins all along the coast.

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the*scarlet*pimpernel — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 05:57:26 GMT

saw the title, Penguins on Antidepressants and got a tad excited.

I thought it was a sequel to Happy Feet

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*crikey*mate* — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:01:39 GMT

@the*scarlet*pimpernel wrote:
saw the title, Penguins on Antidepressants and got a tad excited.
I thought it was a sequel to Happy Feet

LOL

I wonder if penguins know about the pigs.....

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bluecat*dancing — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:07:07 GMT

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imastawka — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:12:05 GMT

Well, then someone needs to tell the info centre cos I was

told "There are no penguins in Penguin, you have to go out

of town along the coast"

They have nice rubbish bins with penguins on them.

And just for crikey, here is the penguin with a couple of pigs

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*crikey*mate* — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:14:03 GMT

I bet the pigs aren't on antidepressants.....

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freakiness — Sun, 09 Feb 2014 06:49:51 GMT

Perhaps they don't want people looking for them or something. I know they discourage people from looking for penguins, outside the designated areas, as their rookeries are easily damaged. People have been known to take their dogs for a hunt on occassion.