Penguins Disappearing From Southern Hemisphere

The Scotsman is running a piece looking at the mysterious disappearance of penguins from all around the world. A biologist who studies the rockhopper penguin characterizes the population crash as 'sinister', as scientists are still baffled as to why almost 30% of the birds have vanished. From the article: "Grant Munro, the director of Falklands Conservation, said there were fears that rockhoppers might become extinct. 'If the present situation were to carry on then it's not a particularly great forecast. It doesn't look like they are suddenly going to start increasing in numbers ... In the Falklands, they are part of everyday life. If you head down to the beach you are going to see penguins.'"

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Microsoft is behind of this

[dvice_null]

> Penguins Disappearing From Southern Hemisphere

Microsoft must be behind of all of this. Who else would like to see cute little penguins to disappear from the world.

I think they could be heard saying...

[MrPerfekt]

So long... and thanks for all the fish!

Just to get us started

[swatward]

I felt a great disturbance in the [NOUN] , as if [AMOUNT] of [NOUN]'s suddenly [VERB] out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

And Tango Makes Three

[cfeedback]

Obviously too many penguins have been reading this book...

This is only news because they're cute.

[Anonymous Coward]

If Penguins were featherless, covered in oozing mucous, constantly moaned in pain and had soulless empty sockets where their eyes should be we wouldn't care if they disappeared from the earth or not.

Re:This is only news because they're cute.

[eric.t.f.bat]

Yeah - cos then they'd be the Microsoft mascot instead.

Sorry, but this is going to make me rich.

[Lord Kano]

My new company KFP is going to put KFC out of business. I was just hoping that no one would notice the population drop until I was ready to go international.

Fuck a chicken wing, penguin wings is the future.

LK

The real reason....

[GoulDuck]

Just like the T-Rex, the reason they disappear is because they can't break their fall. No arms, no way to save them self. Well, the T-Rex had arms, but they where to short to do any difference.

The penguins are coming!

[October_30th]

You fools! Don't you realize what this means? It's the great penguin conspiracy!

They've been honing their plan for total world domination for years while lulling people into a false sense of security by appearing cute and harmless cratures who just want to fish and frolic. Well, their plans are now complete and what appears as a mysterious disappearance of penguins is simply the beginning of the great penguin war.

They are assembling an invincible penguin army deep in the secret caves under Antarctica. That's where all the penguins went.

Re:Murder, not global warming

[Snarfangel]

It was murder most fowl.