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Life Sciences => Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution => Topic started by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 18/09/2024 14:18:48

Title: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 18/09/2024 14:18:48
If penguins were released in the Arctic, and polar bears released in Antarctica, would they most likely (without human intervention) die quickly? The climates are different, the prey is different, there are slightly more daylight days on the north pole, ect.
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: Bored chemist on 18/09/2024 17:18:35
What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
The folk at the antarctic research stations would discover they haven't enough guns.
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 18/09/2024 18:05:51
Penguins would more than likely fill the ecological niche of the now extinct Great Auk  (Pinguinus impennis)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_auk
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: Pseudoscience-is-malarkey on 19/09/2024 21:30:52
Penguins would more than likely fill the ecological niche of the now extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis)
There's a conspiracy theory that the Great Auk are still around.
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: Bored chemist on 20/09/2024 09:36:44
There's a conspiracy theory that
Conspiracy theories should be discussed under psychology, rather than  Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution.
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: paul cotter on 20/09/2024 10:42:35
Or in the subforum "that can't be true".
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: alancalverd on 27/09/2024 21:48:43
there are slightly more daylight days on the north pole, ect.
Can you substantiate this?
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 27/09/2024 23:01:29
Also polar bears would have difficuly during the winter months as there is no nearby land masses to move to so there will probably be a lack of food and probably be annoyed they had missed all the penguins.
Title: Re: What would happen if polar bears and penguins swapped habitats?
Post by: Petrochemicals on 27/09/2024 23:06:22
Penguins would more than likely fill the ecological niche of the now extinct Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis)
There's a conspiracy theory that the Great Auk are still around.

Yes, obviously as they where very elusive and difficult to catch. Just like the Dodo, Elephant bird, Aurochs.