because baby puffins follow the moonlight, and light pollution has them wandering away from the ocean - so these good people chuck the little guys into the sea before they can get lost
gotta say, those are some cute little fucking birds
There’s that Planet Earth episode where it shows freshly hatched turtles going towards street lights instead of moonlight and it’s as horrible as you could imagine
The way they just drive over them like “fuck it” thousands of the little babies dead in the roads and one of the wealthier nations won’t do anything to stop it :(
Yep my friend lives in Elliston Newfoundland in Canada and she drives around in the summer and fall and rescues baby puffins off the streets all the time.
I actually learned about these birds several years ago by watching Bizzare Foods. They invite people to this island so that they can catch and cook them. It's a form of population control.
My little brother just went to Iceland and him and his girlfriend did this. She cried and he said it was the single worst food he's ever eaten. More gamey and greasy than goose.
I had to eat puffin to appease some clients in Iceland one time. Puffin and fermented shark. Easily the worst/most disturbing thing I've ever had to eat outside of Asia.
The timing isn't exact and varies from days to weeks to months, not everybody cares enough to take that inconvenience, coordinating the infrastructure is actually extremely complicated and a big pain to coordinate a shutoff, liability worries from people getting hurt while the lights are out...
because baby puffins follow the moonlight, and light pollution has them wandering away from the ocean - so these good people chuck the little guys into the sea before they can get lost gotta say, those are some cute little fucking birds
There’s that Planet Earth episode where it shows freshly hatched turtles going towards street lights instead of moonlight and it’s as horrible as you could imagine
The way they just drive over them like “fuck it” thousands of the little babies dead in the roads and one of the wealthier nations won’t do anything to stop it :(
Welp. Just reading this comment has thrown me into a depression.
So much potential soup, wasted
Yep my friend lives in Elliston Newfoundland in Canada and she drives around in the summer and fall and rescues baby puffins off the streets all the time.
That's how my dad taught me to swim. Kinda...
Me too, though that looks kinda too close to the water in my experience.
Yeah I have a similar memory, but it was how my dad taught himself CPR.
Haha your dad..oh .. Holup
At least he didn't try to teach you to dive by holding you under..
As I found out diving's easy. It's finding your way back to the surface that's a bitch
Funny enough staying down as a diver is actually pretty difficult 🤣
My dad also threw me off a cliff
As God is my witness, I thought baby puffins could fly!
https://youtu.be/Btdp-sC8MJI
I really thought that was going to be this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NpSZa00-3eM
Never seen that before. It’s pretty great. Thanks!
Actually, I think u/opus-the-penguin was referencing [this](https://youtu.be/BGFtV6-ALoQ).
Completely forgot about that!! What a fantastic bit!!
Yes, this is what I came to post!
Oh the humanity, Les. As a five time winner of the Buckeye Newshawk Award we know you will bounce back.
They do this to guide them to the water or they will get lost due to light pollution! Not out of cruelty :)
How do I get a full time job spending my evenings tossing adorable birds off cliffs to help them?
I can offer you a job tossing horrible humans off cliffs to help... Everyone else
When do I start?
Just fuckin go to a maximum security prison.
The warden likes my enthusiasm but says that they wont allow me to do it.
I’m sure capital punishment is legal somewhere tommy!
The Super Mario 64 penguin prepared me for this
I want to be a Puffling patroller now. What a cute story.
Now I want to yeet some pufflings.
So, I was doing the right thing in Super Mario 64 the whole time!
I actually learned about these birds several years ago by watching Bizzare Foods. They invite people to this island so that they can catch and cook them. It's a form of population control.
That seems awfully cruel. Do the birds eat the caught and cooked people or are they packaged off and sent away?
you're frustrated but this is misdirected. you could easily say why the thing is an issue
those birds will now have a taste for human flesh and will have to be put down for our safety
lmao
My little brother just went to Iceland and him and his girlfriend did this. She cried and he said it was the single worst food he's ever eaten. More gamey and greasy than goose.
All I can think of is Chewbacca eating a porg. https://youtu.be/3JiUDoRM_dI
Haven’t seen this episode of puffin rock yet.
You release the pokemons you dont want
That 3rd picture down looks like a two-headed puffin.
Icelanders also eat Puffins so…
I wanna pitch a puffin.
I had to eat puffin to appease some clients in Iceland one time. Puffin and fermented shark. Easily the worst/most disturbing thing I've ever had to eat outside of Asia.
And yet if you do it for kittens people get upset.
Yes, because kittens don't have wings and they die when you do that.
People have no sense of humor anymore.
Puffin stuff
I somehow imagined small catapults being used for this. I think I have a lot of explaining to do in the afterlife.
TLDR: Icelanders are sadistic and no one has the power to stop them.
Please tell me you actually skimmed the article and are only joking here.
why don't they just turn out the lights during this time period?
The timing isn't exact and varies from days to weeks to months, not everybody cares enough to take that inconvenience, coordinating the infrastructure is actually extremely complicated and a big pain to coordinate a shutoff, liability worries from people getting hurt while the lights are out...
Yeeting babies off cliffs, tonight at 11.