Why are there no penguins in the Arctic? 69 penguins were stocked in the Arctic in the 19th century. How are they doing now?

Little kids often ask weird questions like do polar bears hurt penguins? I believe that some friends will be puzzled at first hearing this question. In fact, the answer to this question is extremely simple - because penguins only live in Antarctica.

However, if you look closely, the correct answer above is also somewhat incorrect, because penguins live not only in the Antarctic, but also in many places in the southern hemisphere.

Do penguins only live in Antarctica?

What's more, there are many kinds of penguins. There are 6 subordinate species, and the 6 genera add up to a total of 18 species. Among these 18 species, only 7 species live in the Antarctic. For example, the king penguin and the emperor penguin are what we usually watch on TV. Of the more two kinds, these penguins are truly native to Antarctica.

What most people don't know is that there are 6 species of penguins living in Australia, but Australia is not an extremely cold place, but is very close to the equator. In Australia, there is a penguin called the island ring penguin that has adapted to this hot environment. Although the island ring penguin can cross the equator to reach the northern hemisphere, they have not continued to move north, nor have they reproduced wildly.

In fact, we can see from the penguins living in Australia and even Africa that climate change or even the harsh environment is not the reason for the migration of penguins to the north, because the land climate environment in the northern and southern hemispheres of the earth is not very different, so those The types of penguins that are able to adapt are completely transferable to the north. What's more, according to the instinct of creatures, they should continue to expand their territory, and the penguins should move towards the northern hemisphere.

But the fact is that the footsteps of penguins only stop in the Galapagos Islands, and around this island is the boundless sea.

Although penguins can swim, the vast ocean that cannot be seen at a glance is still too insurmountable, and the penguins living on the island now do not need to migrate very much.

The penguins living in Africa may really want to go north to find a suitable living environment, but they are helpless and limited by their own body structure, and it is difficult to achieve such a long journey. They can't fly across the hemisphere like birds, and the weight of penguins can't support them, but they learn to dive, spending 80 percent of their time in the water in order to cope with the heat in Africa.

However, the long time penguins stay in the ocean proves that their survivability on land is not strong enough. I believe that most of the friends who have seen penguins can also see that penguins are very clumsy when they act and have little defense ability.

In addition, living in extreme weather conditions such as Antarctica, there are not many enemies for penguins. Such a comfortable situation also makes it difficult for penguins to confront natural threats. So this is why penguins dare not carry out large-scale migration activities, especially if there are ferocious beasts everywhere in Africa, it is too dangerous for penguins.

Even if penguins in Africa have escaped the invasion of wild animals, they have not escaped human persecution. Humans even destroy their burrows in order to obtain their dung.

As the awareness of human protection of animals has become popular in recent years, many people have begun to think of a way out for African penguins: since penguins cannot migrate, can they survive by artificially placing them in the Arctic?

The answer is that even then the penguins can't survive!

Why are there no penguins in the Arctic? What about stocking penguins in the Arctic?

The Arctic region is not as scarce as the Antarctic. On the contrary, there are many ferocious animals in the Arctic region, such as polar bears, and these animals are often starved due to the scarcity of food in the Arctic region. If penguins without any resistance are put into the Arctic , is undoubtedly sending it into the "enemy's mouth".

In the 19th century, someone did put 69 penguins on a small island in the Arctic with no other animals. They thought that these 69 penguins might become an animal flood in the future, but they ignored the laws of the biological world, and penguins could not survive in danger. The North Pole survived, and to this day, people have never seen penguins in the North Pole.