NATURE braves the extreme conditions of Earth’s southernmost continent for a close-up look at the varied Penguins of the Antarctic.
As night falls in Antarctica, biting winds cast horizontal snow across the dark backs of a mass of huddled emperor penguins. The temperature is 50 below zero, the gales are 90 miles per hour, and the sun won’t rise again for more than two months. NATURE captures these amazing — and well-dressed — flightless birds shivering on the ice as well as gliding through their most comfortable element, the water — a balmy bath compared to the air temperature above — where the emperors can hold their breath up to 20 minutes and dive a mile deep. Meanwhile, on the shores of Zavodovski Island, an active volcano, two million chinstrap penguins breed and travel on their own “superhighway” between the sea and their colonies on higher ground — taking care to evade the occasional 12-foot long leopard seal, which can consume six penguins in an hour.
Emperors and kings, chinstraps and Adélies — NATURE follows the penguins’ difficult journey through the cycle of seasons and explores how a changing climate is affecting their habitat and survival.
Online, our interactive penguin map will take you around the Antarctic region for a closer look at six penguin species and their habitats. An essay will help reveal why krill is both the penguins’ favorite food, and the foundation of the Antarctic ecosystem. Also, read more about the issues related to climate change and its potential impact on Antarctica. Finally, watch our penguin Photo Essay, and then test your understanding of the penguin’s cold-weather adaptations in the Penguin Secrets of Survival Challenge.
To order a copy of Penguins of the Antarctic, please visit the NATURE Shop.
Online content for Penguins of the Antarctic was originally posted November 2006.
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where is all the games???!!!
feed me some penguins!
I HATE THIS!
This is so stupid!!!
Omg play o\some stuff like runescape
i lov penguins
penguins are so cute
Penguins are so cute and need our help.
I saw the ice broke in half and created a big gap in the ice. Could those scientists rescue those penguins that were trapped in the big gap of ice? If not, why?
I love penguins. I Love it.
I love watching stuff like this!
I would love to watch this full episode.
i love penguins so i would love to see the video thing!!! penguins rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
candycane.
Penguins are so adorable! I love penguins and they do need our help and so do Polar Bears!!! So stop acting like jerks and help the Antarctic animals!
If u r so worried,then turn down your heat and ride your bicycle or walk to create less greenhouse gas
I LOVE POLAR BEARS AND PENGUINS! I have tips
Tips:
save the artic by using more cold water so the artic can get more iceberks and SURVIVE! I AM DOING THIS SO WHY WON’T YOU! I LOVE PENGUINS AND POLAR BEARS AND WHALES AND SEALS AND WHATEVER IS IN THE ARTIC. PLEASE HELP THE ARTIC! THE ICE IS MELTING FASTER EVERY YEAR! IN 2030 THERE WILL BE NO ARTIC WITH NO PENGUINS NO POLAR BEARS AND OTHER ARTIC ANIMALS! HELP!
I LOVE POLAR BEARS AND PENGUINS! I have tips
Tips:
save the artic by using more cold water so the artic can get more iceberks and SURVIVE! I AM DOING THIS SO WHY WON’T YOU! I LOVE PENGUINS AND POLAR BEARS AND WHALES AND SEALS AND WHATEVER IS IN THE ARTIC. PLEASE HELP THE ARTIC! THE ICE IS MELTING FASTER EVERY YEAR! IN 2030 THERE WILL BE NO ARTIC WITH NO PENGUINS NO POLAR BEARS AND OTHER ARTIC ANIMALS! HELP!
i love penquins
man made global warming is a lie
Paul- How about you back up your statement with scientific evidence or don’t you believe in science either? We (humans) ARE affecting this planet! It is a hard reality, I know. Especially for us Americans who must have their “necessities” such as their Hummers, riding mowers, 3200 Sq ft homes, on & on. It is so much easier to live with your head in the sand so you can have all your toys. We have become such a “gotta have it all society” We have lost touch with what is REALLY important in our precious & fragile lives. We NEED to go back to simpler times if we are to continue. Blessings to you & especially your children, if you have any. What we are leaving the next generation is criminal! I have no children but pray for the next generation(s). Peace to you and to all reading this.
Good goin’ Gala Eyes :-)
This program is persuasive in illuminating the evidence and impacts of global warming. There’s little sense in wasting time with people who believe only what they want to believe and will dogmatically refuse to believe in global warming until the rising ocean laps around their feet. Let’s concentrate on persuading people who take science seriously and will help turn around civilization’s most urgent threat.
This is so stupid why cant you guys write convinsing stuff
uh hello guys dolphins are in danger too they are my favorite animal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
why are you talking about dolphins? they are so cooooolllll!!!!!!
penguins are awsome
please save the penguins they need your help i love animals please dont trow trash in the streets you people now were it gose that is why they made a trash can please please please help us save the penguins and the other creatures
please save the penguins they need your help i love animals please dont trow trash in the streets you people now were it gose that is why they made a trash can please please please help us save the penguins and the other creatures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love “Nature”- on the Penguins at one point I heard the narrator say “we con’t know where we’re going”. Please tell the narrator and the scriptwriter- we are destroying the planet- present science- not blather- this kind of narration betrays nature.
Iam enjoy the information about the Pengiuns