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Is it true that penguins become "insane," "deranged," or "disoriented" and travel away from their colonies to die, as accounted by Werner Herzog in "Encounters at the End of the World" (2009)?

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Is there something uniquely malleable about canine genetics, or if humans wanted we could get the same diversity in aesthetic extremes we've designed into dog breeds from any species of animal, and canines just happened to be subject of our hubris?

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Is it true that penguins become "insane," "deranged," or "disoriented" and travel away from their colonies to die, as accounted by Werner Herzog in "Encounters at the End of the World" (2009)?	285
Is there something uniquely malleable about canine genetics, or if humans wanted we could get the same diversity in aesthetic extremes we've designed into dog breeds from any species of animal, and canines just happened to be subject of our hubris?	1