01 April 2012

Flying penguins

The BBC will screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.
The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, who said: "We'd been watching the penguins and filming them for days, without a hint of what was to come.
"But then the weather took a turn for the worse. It was quite amazing. Rather than getting together in a huddle to protect themselves from the cold, they did something quite unexpected, that no other penguins can do."
BBC1 viewers will see the penguins not only take flight from the Antarctic wastes, but fly thousands of miles to the Amazonian rainforest to find winter sun.
 This related video describes the making of "flying penguins" -


Reblogged from April 1 (note), 2008.

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