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Too cold for penguins - Catherine - 01-01-2018
How cold is it in Canada right now?
In Calgary Alberta it is too cold for the penguins at the zoo to go outside. Now that's cold!
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2018/01/01/calgary-weather-too-cold-for-zoos-penguins
Any time it goes below minus 20C it is cold and if you add in a wind chill factor it is dangerously cold.
Still the idea that even a penguin would be too cold gives you a different sense of how cold it is.
As long as it doesn't get to cold for the polar bears. I don't want to deal with that kind of cold.
This kind of fits so I am going to add it to this thread. One solution to the cold is a goat coat.
https://whyy.org/articles/goat-coats-flicks-giraffes-help-philly-area-zoo-animals-cope-cold-snap/
I think it is funny that they play movies for the giraffes so they can stay entertained while they are kept in by the cold.
If it doesn't warm up I am going to copy the giraffes and watch movies. It is the only sensible thing to do.
RE: Too cold for penguins - Tobi - 03-22-2018
Too cold for Penguins....it is the first time I have heard of that! It's strange....they live in Antarctica! But I can imagine with a minus 40 or so wind chill, it would be too cold for many things.
I really like the Goat Coat and know a Goat would feel so much more snug while wearing a coat. Why not? Dogs do -why not Goats?
This is a cold movie...."From Yakutsk to Oymyakov" where the temperature is minus 69F or -56 Celsius. It's amazing how adaptable humans are (thanks to clothes of course!) All driving their cars, going to work, catching the bus....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KInXvWoq9U
RE: Too cold for penguins - Catherine - 03-22-2018
I have experienced slightly colder than -40C and I have seen the ice fog that forms. It is dangerous to be outside and still we do it. I notice there were no big trees growing in the area. I can't imagine why humans would want to live in such a cold place.
Their cars must be incredible. They keep on driving in spite of the extreme cold.