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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•21 hours ago“Little Penguin” is their more scientific name, so that’s why they would be using it the people living in Sydney would still call it a fairy penguin. I’m from Melbourne, where the picture is from.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•21 hours agoIt’s scientific name is Eudyptula novaehollandiae It’s common name in Australia in general was ‘fairy penguin’, but there has been effort to boost alternative names because they word fairy was a pejorative name for gay men
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-220 hours agoThe RAOU set “Little Penguin” as the preferred name and that is why they do. The gay claim is overblown alt-right shit, one SeaWorld claimed to have changed the name for that reason, no one else ever did.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•18 hours agoThanks, I think I picked up that idea from that SeaWorld. I’ll stop repeating it now.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•20 hours agoBut there’s an icecream here called Golden Gaytime, and the greatest Australian movie is The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert…
“Little Penguin” is their more scientific name, so that’s why they would be using it the people living in Sydney would still call it a fairy penguin.
I’m from Melbourne, where the picture is from.
It’s scientific name is Eudyptula novaehollandiae
It’s common name in Australia in general was ‘fairy penguin’, but there has been effort to boost alternative names because they word fairy was a pejorative name for gay men
The RAOU set “Little Penguin” as the preferred name and that is why they do.
The gay claim is overblown alt-right shit, one SeaWorld claimed to have changed the name for that reason, no one else ever did.
Thanks, I think I picked up that idea from that SeaWorld. I’ll stop repeating it now.
But there’s an icecream here called Golden Gaytime, and the greatest Australian movie is The Adventures Of Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert…