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Just saw the premier of this french-made documentary by Luc Jacquet about the life of the Emperor penguin in the Antartic.
Pretty moving stuff as you follow the incredible long march of the colonies over the ice to the breeding grounds.
Three months later, when the female lays the egg, she passes it on to the male who then keeps it warm whilst his mate, who hasn't eaten in three months, returns again to the sea.
Leaving the male in charge of the egg, in the fierce winter, starving for another month!
The females return, just in time to feed the young whilst the poor males go off on the return journey, half dead with hunger.
Many don't make it.
Amazing photography but the film was spoilt by syrupy voice-overs taking the character of the penguins.
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Probably not the same film, but I saw one on one of the High Definition channels, and it was impossible to unglue from the screen.Penguins are the type of the creature you can spend your whole day watching, and the film was well made in addition to... eat your heart out, Jeff!!! - being of course a complete eye candy in that HD glory!
I wrote here once about the segment on one of the Animal Planet program where they show the house pet penguin in Japan.
In the morning the owners put a backpack on the bird and let it out of the door, and it walks all the way to the fish market, where the merchants load his pack with fresh fish he (or she?) then brings home.
The whole town knows the bird, and it is quite a spectacle as it marches dutifully along the streets. I missed it, so my wife told me about it.
Sorry, couldn't miss the chance to rub it in regarding the HD... he-he...
...since leaving Kora, I'm not even hi-fi these days!
Anyway, the director was there at the premier and was obviously very taken with the Emperors.
Someone in the cinema crowd asked if the Emperors had the same intelligence as humans and he replied that that depended - if intelligence meant being adaptable to a hostile environment, then the penguins won hands down!!!!
It really was quite moving...
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