If you live on in Canada , you have the rightfield to complain about the cold on the undecomposed of days . However , if you ’d wish a little more relief for your complaint , it now come out it ’s too stale in Canada even for penguin .
Picture penguin and you belike think of Antarctic circumstance ; large groups of penguins huddle for warmth in the snow , while Morgan Freeman ’s musical voiceover describes just how freaking common cold it is . severely , they ’re unfearing creature , to say the least .
For magnate penguins at Calgary Zoo in Alberta , however , huddling just wo n’t cut it any longer and they ’ve had to be work indoors for the wintertime , The Globe and Mailreports .
One of the downy young penguin could be specially vulnerable to the frigidity .
The zoo locomote the animals indoors last week , after the temperature average stumble -28 ° C , with a malarkey gelidity that could feel around -40 ° C .
" We just do n’t want to bring out them to too much [ cold ] , " zoo curator Malu Cellitold The Globe and Mail . " To keep them good , we decide to pick a terminus ad quem to let them out . "
They set that limit at -25 ° C to be on the safe side . The zoological garden currently keeps 51 penguins , some of which are very youthful . The zoo explained that in the wild the penguins are physiologically capable of withstand cold temperatures , but as they are n’t wild penguins it ’s being conservative with its flock .
King penguins are from less hardy line than their cousin , the emperor penguin . They are found in insensate , sub - south-polar island , but do n’t venture as far south as Saturnia pavonia penguins and are n’t as equipped to deal with such low temperatures .
The zoo allows the penguin to prefer whether they go outside during normal temperatures , but when it make as inhuman as it presently is in Alberta , the zoo step in for their own trade protection .
" On moth-eaten days like this , we have to make that choice for them because it is so cold , " Celli say . " It ’s kind of like you could bundle up your tike , but then there ’s a point you ’re going to say , ' I be intimate you ’re effective , but I ’d rather you stay at bottom now . ' "
So , Canadians , next time someone tells you to check complaining about the temperature , remind them it ’s too cold for factual Antarctic - dwelling house penguins .
