Talk:Gentoo penguin

message: There should be a way to navigate to this page from the penguin page.  --zandperl 20:22, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Look under the classification section: 
Family Spheniscidae
* King Penguin, Aptenodytes patagonicus
* Emperor Penguin, Aptenodytes forsteri
* Gentoo Penguin, Pygoscelis papua
Stan 20:53, 5 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: My bad, I completely missed that!  :-P  --zandperl 01:41, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The name gentoo comes from the French language, being a corruption of the word ghetto meaning "Poor" or "Senial". During the 18th century, the name was also applied to members of the Hindu faith.
This sounds wrong to me. The word ghetto is not of French origin (rather Italian, see
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghetto ) and does not mean "poor" or even "senial" (which does not seem to be a word at all).
Furthermore, as someone else has indicated, this assertion is somewhat undocumented.
I googled quickly ('gentoo'+'hindu') and found the following, amongst others:
http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/penguins/page6.phtml
http://www.raceandhistory.com/historicalviews/NoDefinitionofHinduism.htm
What we can clearly establish is that "gentoo" was/is a derogatory term used to refer to Hindus (and others) by  both British (possibly a corruption of "Hindu"?) and Portugese (from 'gentile'). 
I'll remove the reference to French, at least.
129.132.45.42 17:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I've search many sites and not one gives a live span of the Gentoo. Book report due Thurs. Help
:http://www.google.com/search?q=%22gentoo%20penguins%22%20life%20span ¦ Reisio 05:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How long do they live for? 

message: I'm sure there is something wrong with this. How could a 7 kg creature lay an egg of 500 kg ? I changed it to 500 g, but I'm not sure of the actual weight of their eggs. (~Drysh)
:Simple vandalism. It's a real shame that almost nobody ever seems to get the idea to check the history when they see something extraordinary/incredible but unexplained or plain illogical in an article. Had you done that, you'd have noticed that the original figure given was 130 g. After seven years, the vandalism was still basically uncorrected. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 00:43, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  500,000 g Eggs ?!? 

message: "Two eggs are laid, both weighing around 500 g."  Is that each, or in total? GrahamBould 12:55, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eggs 

message: dʒɛntu??  shouldn't it be something like jĕn`tŌ´ (from thefreedictionary.com)  is there some wikipedia sanctioned pronunciation scheme that I missed?
:No, it is correct as is.  Look at International Phonetic Alphabet for English.  /ˈdʒɛntu/ as the English pronunciation spelling would be exactly like [jen-too] (Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)). 97.86.248.2 21:29, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: "The chicks remain in the nests for about 30 days before forming creches."  The "Creche" link redirects to "Crèche", which is a stub, saying it can mean "Day care centre" or "Nativity scene".  So, wtf?  Do the 30 day old chicks build themselves a little fort out of snow or clay?  Or is there a third sense of the word, referring to some type of plumage?  More info?  Citation? --Infinoid 16:04, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Creches 

message: "The Gentoo are the most timid species of penguin."
I believe that the above is original reseach and that it should have a citation or be  deleted. Teak the Kiwi 17:11, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably taken from another source, but should have a cite in any case. Feel free to whack in the meantime, it could also be vandalism (vandals like the penguin articles for some reason). Stan 17:52, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Research 

message: ghtbgtyht [v0_I(V_(b} I(V_B}P[m](O  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.94.185 (talk) 13:01, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  @@^$tv9g 

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message: What's about the Striated caracara? (Mentioned in the introduction there)
--Killerkürbis (talk) 06:10, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Predators on land? 

message: Gentoo penguins are not only the most inquisitive species of penguin, it is a common fact that they are also the cutest 92.41.132.115 (talk) 21:00, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cuteness