Happy Antarctica Day Piggies & Pals & Penguins & Penguineas! 🐹 🐧 🐧 🐧 🇦🇶 🥕

Guinea pigs in Invercargill, New Zealand, know that it's only a hop, skip, and a cold wheek wheek jump to the southernmost continent!

Eight species of penguins inhabit Antarctica and its offshore islands: Adelie, Emperor, Chinstrap, Gentoo, King, Macaroni, Magellanic, and Rockhopper. And then, there's the rarer Penguinea Pig, a new subject of study for biologists everywhere!

Despite its unmistakable squeak-wheek and aggressively rotund physique, the elusive Penguinea Pig continues to baffle researchers who only wanted a normal field season. They have been seen waddling off with expensive equipment, demanding snacks from passing scientists. Its primary defense mechanism appears to be weaponized cuteness—powerful enough to derail entire expeditions as grown adults drop everything to coo, photograph, and hand over their remaining granola bars and carrot snacks.

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And for those guinea pig owners with an interest in Antarctica or penguins, the following list of topics related to Antarctica and the fact that over 50 countries are cooperating in a special treaty to preserve and protect penguineas are just a bunch of Cavy Conspiracies, wheek wheek, wink, wink, say no more ... 🤔 🤔 🤔

* Secret Nazi Bases
* Hidden Alien Civilizations
* Ancient Lost Cities
* Hollow Earth Entrances
* The Ice Wall Theory
* Antarctic Pyramids
* Government or Military Black Sites
* Suppressed Discoveries
* The “No-Go Zone” Treaty Theory
* Giant Creatures or Cryptids
* Energy or Electromagnetic Anomalies

Wheek! Wheek!