Why is Mumble different from the rest of those Penguins?

Nope, he looks pretty similar to real baby Emperor penguins. The reason his parents – and actual Emperor penguins – look different than their little ones is for a couple of reasons. One of the main reasons is that adult Emperor penguins don’t get that yellowy or orangy coloring until they start to eat their main-staple food. The more they eat, the brighter their colors will be, because that’s the color of their food.

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I think Mumble is special and unique. Who said that you have to look the same. Mabey, it could be a “genetic thing” that he got from his grandparents, or it like in the movie, The dad says, that he dropped him when he was an egg. Who knows, the creators.

@DrasticDreamer Throught the whole movie he looked different from the other Penguins, even when he was all grown up he was still fluffy. So their diet determins how they turn out to look like as well?

@Tink1113 Ah, I see. Well, he was true to form when he was a baby in the movie, but if he was still fluffy as an adult, that’s the part that doesn’t match. Yeah, their diet is what gives them the orange and yellow color. One reason they don’t remain fluffy is because that wouldn’t enable them to swim as well. Think of it like those swimmers in the Olympics who pay a lot of money for sleek, aerodynamic bathing suits. That’s basically what the coats of adult Emperor penguins turn into. :)

Because the computer generated him that way.

@DrasticDreamer Yeah, that was what threw me off a little. So they are bound to grow out of their fluffyness someday, and he didn’t. They would be heavy if it was thick.

~ You would look different too if you had Elvis and Marilyn for parents.

Extra chromosome.

@Tink1113 Sorry to tell you little penguin buddy. It’s just a made-up story. We like to have our fairytales too.

:O

By the way, tink, if you want to see a true story of love and courage among our people watch the epic “March of the Penguins.” It’s a sweeping saga that has both “Dr. Zhivago” and “Gone with the Wind” beat!

@janbb Oh dear Janbb, I saw that movie a couple of years ago, I saw everything, the most epic part was when our kind was mating. But it was still a good movie.

@Tink1113 Was pretty sure you wouldn’t have missed it.

@janbb I didn’t. The memory is forever in my head.

So everyone could tell who he was.

@DrBill Possibly, but he was also the only one with blue eyes.

He was also the only one with a defined bowtie

I think it was just so you could pick the hero out of the crowd. They could write it off as being associated with the whole egg dropping incident, but I don’t think there’s a real world reason for it.

@gussnarp Lurve for “real world reason.”

What is it with you and penguins?

@J0E The penguin is my doppelganger (shadow self).

@J0E Everything.

I suspect mambo is a mutation known as dilute coloring
Just as albino are a color mutation, dilute, which is usually shades of gray, are a coloration mutation