Here lieth the lesson of the camel and the gentoo: Heat will move us, one way or another.
-Bill Weir, Life As We Know It (Can Be)
Here the reference is to penguins, not to the non-Muslims of India as Portuguese explorers called them (after their word Gentio, for Gentile), before the word Hindu- a Persian mispronunciation of Indus- entered Western usage, and after whom these penguins were named perhaps for their turban-like white cap on a black body. But to talk about camels and penguins is also to talk about sand and snow, and heat everywhere, as in rising temperatures that feel now more like the Sahara than Antarctica.