Flying Penguins Discovered and Captured on Film
Tue, Apr 1, 2008
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BBC camera crews discovered something absolutely incredible…
They were filming a colony of Adélie penguins on King Geoerge Island, around 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands, when the weather took a turn for the worse.
Instead of the penguins huddling together, as you’d normally expect, they did something absolutely fascinating. They took off and flew thousands of miles to the South American tropical rainforests to bask in the winter sun.
The program, part of the new BBC natural history series, Miracles of Evolution is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said:
The film reveals nature’s stunning glory in exciting and unexpected ways, so much so that it defies belief…Not only does it create a vivid and emotional experience for the viewer, it also illustrates just how bold and simple Darwin’s idea of natural selection was.
You can watch some amazing clips of this in action here:
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Flying penguins take off to bask in the sun » ZME Science Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 2:14 pm[...] somehow managed to not see the story about the flying penguins (no bull, just follow me). Luckily, environmental graffiti paid more attention and they found this fascinating video. Yes, penguins to take off and fly. How? [...]
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Zooillogix Says:
April 1st, 2008 at 5:02 pmIncredible New BBC Penguin Footage…
Thanks to Chris of Environmental Graffiti for sharing…….
April 1st, 2008 at 1:52 pm
Happy April Fools Day! :)
April 2nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
Yes, April Fools!
April 2nd, 2008 at 4:08 am
LOL!!! You got me….
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
This really is amazing. Who in the world has the time to put something like this together?
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:32 am
it would be more believeable if the pengiuns flew only a couple of miles away. no animal would fly for that long with out taking rests.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm
Unbelievable really had me going there for a while.
Outstanding manipulation
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:38 pm
My Wife and I recently completed a “rest area” for the flying penguins highlighted in your incredible video. For many years we have hand fed these flying masterpieces when they stopped to rest at my pool in Northridge, California. One year we were visited by more than 10,00 penguins in a three day period. What a mess we had but their shrieking was well worth the cleanup. They enjoy brie cheese and Gorton’s fish filets sprinkled with kosher salt and Lorna Doone crumbs. We are anxiously awaiting their fly-over later this month and will forward the vido to you as soon as we can. Thank you.
February 7th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
OOh. I really beleived it for several minutes. I did’nt know everything, I thought…