Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica NEVER-BEFORE-FILMED FOR TV | Nat Geo

[glamphotographer]

 

[oakvilleguy]

Amazing. The yellow on the snow is them pissing themselves from fear

 

[harryass]

Emperor penguins are tough species of penguins.
Of the 17 species of penguins, only emperor penguins breed during the extreme Antarctic winter, when temperatures can drop to below -50C and winds can reach 300 kilometers per hour.

 

[bazokajoe]

Well they are penguins. No food for them on that huge iceberg.

 

[xix]

Some were pushed off for leading.

 

[JuanGoodman]

reminds me of this

Deliberate fraud. For the 1958 Disney nature film White Wilderness, filmmakers eager for dramatic footage staged a lemming death plunge, pushing dozens of lemmings off a cliff while cameras were rolling.

How Disney Tricked the World Into Believing Lemmings Commit Mass Suicide

The 1958 nature documentary White Wilderness is one of several films the House of Mouse is less than proud of.

hyperallergic.com