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== Real Life ==
* [[Truth in Television]]: The word "penguin" originally designated a fish-eating, flightless, black and white dweller of the Northern Hemisphere: The [
* While polar bears themselves are absent from the southern hemisphere, some other Arctic species have been introduced there. One notable case is the reindeer, which occurs now in Sub-antartic islands, and they can be [http://ibc.lynxeds.com/video/king-penguin-aptenodytes-patagonicus/colony-reindeers seen next to penguin colonies]
* An infamous French cartoon from around 1908 commented on the controversy over whether explorer Robert Peary had truly been the first man to reach the North Pole. He is shown surrounded by penguins.
* A Soviet artist once drew a caricature about Eisenhower looking all over the Arctic for the [[Red Scare|Communist threat]]. Everyone laughed at him for making the trope mistake... until they learned [[Joseph Stalin]] approved of the picture
* May or may not count, but many zoos have polar bears and penguins
* It's not penguins and polar bears specifically, but there are certain animals that can be found both in the Arctic and Antarctic such as the [
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