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Of course, it's probably just easier to remember NORTH IS BEARS, SOUTH IS PENGUINS.<ref>Unless you're talking about sports, in which case ''west'' is [[American Football|Bears]] and ''east'' is [[Useful Notes/Ice Hockey|Penguins]], although only if you're between 80 and 87 degrees West longitude.</ref>
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** Even better because in the UK ''Penguins'' are a brand of crunchy biscuit.
* [[Older Than Radio]]: Wyss's ''[[Swiss Family Robinson]]'' was riddled with an impossible concentration of animals and plants on an island. Penguins arrived in numbers on an island that's so close to the equator that it never snows -- although penguins aren't restricted to snowy or frigid climes by any means, the Galapagos Penguin is the only surviving species that lives in outright tropical climates.
** Considering how beloved a story ''[[Swiss Family Robinson]]'' is, I think we can chalk this one up to [[
* There's a book about Santa Claus which actually subverts this- Santa's workshop has a penguin population nearby, but they're noted as emigrating from the South Pole somehow (maybe stowing away at Santa's vacation spot). This particular breed has developed [[Happy Feet|a bowtie-like spot on their chests]].
* One of the charming Sharpe ''[[Miss Bianca]]'' books (not the Disney films) manages to invoke and invert this at the same time: The titular characters, while on a mission to Antarctica do run into polar bears, who admit that this isn't their home, they are on an exchange program with the Arctic Ocean.
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[The Far Side]]''. Gary Larson drew a few strips featuring this trope for the same reason he did strips with [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|humans and dinosaurs living together]]: [[Rule of Funny]]. A typical example has a group of penguins on a small ice floe commenting on the ongoing rash of mysterious disappearances, while a polar bear sits among them, wearing a fake beak [[Paper
* [[Garfield]] has frequently talked about going to the North Pole to eat penguins. Nermal once caught on to his mistake.
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