Boing Boing travels to Antarctica

On his trip to Antarctica, Alek O. Komarnitsky took these wide-angle shots of Adelie Penguins walking by a Boing Boing logo he set down in the snow. LINK: Boingboing

Wide-angle shots of Adelie Penguins walking by BoingBoing sign in Antarctica.

Emperor Penguins in Western Antarctica

Popularised by the 2005 film March of the Penguins, penguins are to the Antarctic what the polar bear is to the Arctic. LINK

Flying Penguins

Film maker and writer Terry Jones discovers a colony of penguins, which are unlike any other penguins in the world. It’s an ad for the BBC iPlayer. Via: Neatorama, Via: Youtube

Giant Huddle of Penguins Look “Like Frothing Coffee” From The Sky

Well, believe it or not, the image on above is a one such crèche as seen from the sky, formed by as many as 25,000 king penguins in the shoreline of South Georgia, a British territory close to Antarctica.

From the sky, it looks like a giant swirling frothy coffee.

Yet this scene shows an extraordinary community at work - thousands of king penguins instinctively herding their recently born young into giant huddles to stop them freezing to death.

Parental instinct takes over in the inhospitable climate of the South Atlantic and the furry brown chicks are made to crowd together to retain their body warmth in the equivalent of bird creches - visible as brown swathes on our photo. LINK, Via: Neatorama