Penguins can fly!

[niggle]

The BBC will today screen remarkable footage of penguins flying as part of its new natural history series, Miracles of Evolution.
Camera crews discovered a colony of Adélie penguins while filming on King George Island, some 750 miles south of the Falkland Islands.
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.

"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."



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/portal/ttv/a ... 1482436596

[Wanderlust]

ho hum...April Fool!

[Randy Cornhole]

Good try...

[margaretcarnes]

Randy - it was actually splashed all over the Beeb yesterday with some really good graphics showing the flocks of migrating penguins landing in some tropical rain forest! Best April 1st stunt I've seen, and they gave a website address for people to get more info. No doubt the number of 'hits' will be disclosed later

[niggle]

Don't know why no-one believes this story, I have a flock of Singha Penguins rroost in my garden every evening.