Why are there no penguins in the Arctic? What happened to the 69 penguins that were stocked in the Arctic back then?

If Columbus did not begin to discover the new continent, and Magellan did not complete his voyage around the world, our human understanding of the earth would not be so comprehensive. Since the first major voyage, human beings have set foot in many fields that they have not been to. This includes the Americas and Antarctica.

In the impression of many people, the Antarctic climate is very cold. Before the discovery, human beings never thought that there would be life here. When humans first set foot on the Antarctic, people suddenly found that there was a group of blue and white living in Antarctica. The chubby waterfowl, they feed on small fish and walk naively.

This kind of water bird is the penguin that we are more familiar with later. Its body is black and white.

Many people are curious about this kind of water bird they have never seen before, and at the same time they also ask such a question, why are there no penguins in the Arctic? What happened to the 69 penguins that were stocked in the Arctic back then?

In the cognition of many people, it seems that penguins can only be found in Antarctica. But in fact this is not the case. There are 18 known species of penguins in the world. Except for the unique emperor penguins and Adelie penguins in Antarctica, the other 16 species of penguins are not only found in Antarctica. Penguins are found in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, as well as in South America.

The places with penguins are basically in the southern hemisphere, and within the range of the northern hemisphere and the North Pole, penguins are rarely seen.

What kind of situation is this? Why haven't penguins moved out of the southern hemisphere on a large scale?

Penguins are the oldest existing water birds in the world. They are very different in shape and genetics from other birds, so penguins basically constitute a separate order of penguins.

As for the origin of this water bird, modern archaeology proves that the penguin fossils found in the Weimanu fossil area of ​​New Zealand, which is more than 2,000 kilometers away from the Antarctic, prove that this creature appeared 62 million years ago.

Subsequently, archaeologists discovered many penguin fossils in Peru and South America. According to the research, the time distance of these fossils is now 42 million years.

Taken together, the earliest penguins originated near the Antarctic. Later, with the continuous changes in the earth's crust, the Antarctic gradually moved away from the mainland, and this penguin was not able to leave the southern hemisphere, let alone the North Pole, which is the farthest from the Antarctic.

This statement may not be completely tenable, but we have to look at the entire ecological environment of Antarctica. Most of the Antarctic is covered with ice and snow. The thickness of these ice and snow is 1880 meters, and some places have even reached 4 kilometers, so In a complex environment, if you want to go out completely, it is not too easy.

In addition, some people may also say that penguins can not swim? Can't they swim to the North Pole? People who can think like this may not understand how far the South Pole is from the North Pole. The South Pole and the North Pole are like two sides of a coin. Although they seem to be together, they are very far away.

No one said that penguins don't have wings, do they? Can't fly to the North Pole? The person who asked these two questions has never understood the penguin's two small wings, which only have the ability to flap, but not the ability to fly.

The ringed penguins of the island living near the equator, because the surrounding environment is thousands of kilometers of boundless, the penguins will lose their direction when swimming, so they cannot reach the relatively short North Pole.

There are no penguins in the North Pole, except that the penguins far away in the Antarctic cannot migrate long distances. The most important thing is that all the North Pole is an ocean covered by a thick layer of ice, which is not conducive to the reproduction and survival of penguins. For those who reproduce on land, there is a frozen snow field in Antarctica, so it is very suitable for the survival of penguins.

There were penguins in the Arctic a long time ago, but due to the mass killing of penguins by people at that time, the penguins in the Arctic were severely extinct, so there are no penguins in the Arctic now.

In addition, the population distribution in the northern hemisphere is larger than that in the southern hemisphere, so humans need more food. There are fewer humans in the Antarctic, and food is relatively abundant, so the Antarctic is more conducive to the survival of penguins.

In 1939, Lars Christensen brought back 69 penguins from the Antarctic in order to increase the popularity and satisfy everyone's curiosity, and put them on the Lofoten Islands for artificial feeding.

The 69 penguins were doing fine in the beginning, but the penguin viewing experience became bleak as Christensen Ozawa's experience became more and more bleak. He felt that these penguins not only waste a lot of food every day, but also had no effect, so he put all these penguins into the Arctic.

At the beginning, humans could still see the 69 penguins that were put into the North Pole. By 1954, people had never found any trace of these penguins.

From this, it can be inferred that the penguins from the Antarctic were artificially brought to the North Pole. Even if the penguins can survive temporarily, don’t forget that there are large animals such as polar bears in the North Pole. If the penguins are here without human control, they are likely to be regarded as A meal in the mouth of a polar bear.

To sum up, the absence of penguins in the Arctic is due to man-made destruction, and of course, because of the harsh living environment here, it is impossible for humans to introduce penguins from the Antarctic.