airdrop some fish
why don't somebody get a cargo plane and airdrop a crapload of tuna for these animals. I am sure they would appreciate it. Its a better than walking a million miles to eat
shareI feel the same way you do, tallpall. I mean, when I saw this movie, and the penguins who were stranded in the ice ditch I felt bad. I mean, these guys were dying! They couldn't get out! I figure the production and film crew could have gotten a pickup truck, backed it up to the ledge, and they coulda done a bucket brigade and hoisted the lil guys to safety two at a time. The could have loaded them in the truck (standing up to save room) and ferried them to a medical facility. I know I would have been the first one down that ditch, with a penguin under each arm and another stashed in my backpack. Maybe two in my backpack. But the point is, if they were so nearby, why didn't the film crew help??
Also, instead of filming the penguins walking along, the producers should have loaded them up in flatbed trucks or a Huey to get them to and from the feeding-mating grounds.
That would have been interfering with nature. Prime Directive.
Put, simply, any interference with the natural order of anything could potentially have damaging consequences.
Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.
OK, fine, there's a documentary we'd all like to see: '"Rescue" of the Penguins'... it would be an awesome exploration of human-centric notions of extra-species distress & needs... we could explore motifs like what happens when one <i>deliberately</i> sets out to interfere with nature (as opposed to the thousands of other examples where we've done so accidentally, with horrific results).
there could be scenes of a free fish stand, sea leopard bounty hunters, and a propane heater for the ice floes.
at the end of the doc there could be followup up to see whether the group of penguins are better off for their humanus-ex-machina or if the interruption in their thousands-year-old-migratory & survival habits were cruelly thwarted & now they don't have the basics of skills to meet their needs. imagine, entire populations of lazy penguins expecting handouts. evolution takes food stamps!
there would even be some parallels to occupation in Iraq (ie. can one group understand the needs of an alien group & respond to them adequately, or would one's interference wreak a havoc felt for generations?)
good luck with the funding! let me know how it goes!
well when it gets to the point where there are only 3 of these penguins left on Earth, we won't have a choice but to intervene. I think they are smart enough to know when they are being helped. Its highly unlikely they are going to eat airdropped tuna then wander out in a blizzard and die. When Noah loaded his ark full of animals, he took care of them
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Those are brilliant ideas, but remember, give a penquin a fish and he eats for a day, teach him how to fish and he eats for a year. (Okay penquins know how to fish, but still.)
Did you see those stupid penquins trying to transfer the eggs and dropping them on the ground? The US Army has trained the Iraqi army and police force to be wonderfully efficient at getting rid of bad guys. Now that the job is done maybe they could be drafted in train these penguins how to pass the eggs?
Don't you see how brilliant this is? If we train the penguins so they're not so wasteful and give them coats so that some of them don't freeze, then the number of penguins will soar. Once there are enough penquins we can leave them alone for a long time before we have to worry about them again. An initial investment now saves money later.
This is how conservation works. When there are only a few animals (like Pandas) we try hard to save them (if they are cute). When there are a lot (like rats ... not so cute) we kill them.
I know these penguins were being filmed at the French base on the Antarctic, but I'm sure the French would welcome US help.