No Penguins in Alaska - Why Not?
July 28th 2008 21:36
Category: Tall Tales n Lies
They lived there in peace with the polar bears, seals, walruses, beluga and humpback whales, caribou, musk ox, puffins, tourists and foxes. All was good, and there was food aplenty for all until the Raven flew north to view the frozen wonderland and brought the sun with him to warm his feathered behind against the ravages of the bone chilling winds.
The sun’s warmth worked its magic and icy glaciers soon began to melt, some even disappeared, and for a time, there was rejoicing among the residents who’d never experienced the pleasure of warmth before; it was amazing. The sea mammals soon discovered that they had unlimited access to their food and whale, seal, walrus and penguin were gorging on krill, herring and other small fishes that some had never seen before. Life was good for them.
But the pack ice had melted in the warmth of the sun too, and now the seals, walruses, foxes, penguins and polar bears found themselves land locked. Which was fine for all but the polar bear, his prime hunting grounds – the pack ice was gone. Getting hungrier and hungrier by the moment the polar bears became desperate, their fishing gear left out on the ice flow had vanished beneath ocean and they faced starvation from the weeks without food.
Desperately hungry, the bears captured and started to eat several of the foxes, who weren‘t happy at all about this new situation and cried out for help, but to no avail. Their pleas were falling upon deaf ears. About to be eaten, one of them had a brilliant idea to insure the survival of all foxes and cried out, “Brother polar bear, for your own good, don’t eat us, we all have rabies,” continuing, the wily fox said, “Brother polar bears, the penguins don’t have rabies and have become fat and lazy from the easy fishing. Why not eat them?” The polar bears looked at the lanky foxes with rabies and then at the plump penguins, accepting the story, they released the foxes. But, not before they made the foxes promise to help the polar bears hunt penguins. The plan worked well for everyone but the penguins; they were very unhappy with the turn of events.
Desperate and with great urgency the penguins cried out to the heavens for help, their numbers were growing smaller by the day.
Raven, hearing their pleas flew to the sounds of the commotion and learned what had happened and was dismayed by the outcome of his visit. He rounded up the Humpback whales and had the penguins climb up and onto their backs for a ride south, away from the Arctic. When the last penguin left, Raven returned to sun back to where he’d taken it from and smiled as the oceans refroze, the glaciers and ice pack returned. Global warming ended and life in the Arctic was again peaceful, but there weren’t any more penguins.
But don’t feel bad for them penguins, the whales took most of them to the South Pole where there aren’t any polar bears; some of them who liked the warm weather jumped off early and now live at the bottom of South America. Many of them make guest appearances in Disney movies and the penguin population is soaring again. Life as we now know it, began.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Raven
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I did enjoy your little tale, much better than politics, but not quite as good as the brain, of course, but then again, that is mostly borrowed work, I would not want to err on the side of original.
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