Why ? Because it is always confused with another black and white seabird from cold regions, a cousin of its own: the penguin, from the southern hemisphere, which is actually unable to fly away. In fact, during evolution, the penguin would have chosen not to fly because it tired him, while he loved to swim.
So where does the confusion come from? In the past, we had in the Pinguinus family, in the North Atlantic, the Great Auk, a beast of about 5 kilos, which looked a lot like the penguin, and which did not know how to fly. It was hunted for its meat, and the species became extinct in 1844.
The only species that exists today is… the…
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