Penguins. In the … desert?
Indeed; it’s true. Not a hot desert, of course, but the windswept edge of coastal Patagonia – Punta Tombo, Argentina, to be exact – where every year hundreds of thousands of Magellanic Penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) congregate to breed and rear their young.
“Who was the first person to eat an avocado – and why?” It’s a fair question; after all, even if you like avocados (and I do) you have to admit that were they an unknown plant pod, their lumpy greenish-black exterior concealing their mushy, slippery, lighter green pulp doesn’t exactly give them them an appearance that most would consider appetizing. The same question could similarly be asked, “what went through the mind of the first explorer to see a penguin, or a pineapple, or for that matter a pangolin?”