FoxTrot by Bill Amend for December 23, 2004

lol

perhaps this would be a good time for a hot chocolate break.

As to the question in the final frame: Yes.

hahahaha

Since Roger’s dreaming, they could be great auks (Pinguinis impennis ; this bird became extinct in 1844 as a result of over-harvesting by humans). The great auk was widespread and common in the Northern Hemisphere. Like penguins, it was flightless, semiaquatic, black and white, and ate fish. The great auk’s closest living relatives include puffins and guillemots. Its mass was about 11 pounds; it was about the size of the present-day Adélie penguin of Antarctica.

Sources:

•Austin, Oliver L., Jr.. “PENGUINS—Sphenisciformes”. Birds of the World , 1983 edition. illustrated by Arthur Singer, edited by Herbert S. Zim, Golden Press, 1961, page 29.

•Beacham, Walton (editor). “Species Accounts: Extinct Birds of North America”. The Official World Wildlife Fund Guide to Extinct Species of Modern Times , Beacham Publishing Corp., 1997, pp. 191-193.

•Piper, Ross. “Fewer Than 200 Years Ago”. Extinct Animals: An Encyclopedia of Species that Have Disappeared during Human History , illustrated by Renata Cunha and Phil Miller, Greenwood Press, 2009, pp. 38-41.