P is for Penguin

I feel a little like Jessica Alba in the movie Good Luck Chuck saying this, but today I was wondering why penguins waddle. I mean, it's pretty amazing to me (regardless of their oldest standing record of best-dressed in the animal kingdom) that those penguin chicks even bother to mate with men that waddle from here to there. I mean they have legs.... right?

I bet all it would take is one badass motha-penguin who decided to get from here to there like Rollo Larson on Sanford and Son. I'm talking about the fast walk, with large steps, arm pumping back and forth like a man with a mission and somewhere to be (not your typical Snoop Dogg pimp walk and definitely not your typical penguin dweeby waddle).


















Yeeeeeeeahh....

That would definitely get the penguin ladies. But clearly that P is for Penguin the pimp has not yet entered into the world and the masses will have to patiently waddle. And as it turns out, it is an energy/heat-saving mechanism - in the cold weather they expose less of their legs waddling than striding and expend the least effort, conserving their calories for more ...ughem... productive activities. Like swimming in icy cold water.

Maybe things happen the way they do for a reason after all...
Do we discover patterns or create them?