Tram Town
Monday, October 03, 2005
| Category: Penguins I think I am detecting a PC shift in the naming of fairy penguins. In this article in the Tullamarine Trotskyite Tribune, they are referred to as "little penguins". The Wikipedia has the following to say: Little Penguins (Eudyptula minor) have several common names. In Australia they are often referred to as Fairy Penguins due to their small size, in New Zealand they are called Little Blue Penguins or just Blue Penguins owing to their plumage color, the New Zealand Maori call them Korora, in Chile they are known as Pingüino pequeño or Pingüino azul.So why does Steve Butcher use the name little penguin? From the official Penguin Parade site: amazing penguin factsI would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting where this was decided. Can't you just imagine the politically correct nonsense that would have been flying about? My guess is that they were originally called fairy penguins not because of their size, but because they dressed up in poofy tuxes and minced it about on the beach! |
