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emperor penguins of the antarctic [ full wildlife documentary]
the continent to the Penguins busy day to lead a news
stately emperors
and their close relatives
the king penguins
it
summer is already giving way to the long winter night
thunderstorms a whole tomato warning
Penguins to the one
the embers alone stapled in ninety mile an hour winds
and temperatures a 50p low they lay their eggs
how do these birds cope with such extreme weather
and as a climate starts to change what lies ahead for the Penguins happy and
talked
ice thousands and thousands of miles a vice
on
on both the sea and the land
Antarctica's mainland is larger than europe
but it lies under and ice cap two miles thick
inlay dalton has no life at all
accepted a few places with the frozen land meets
the frozen sea the new this dot on the northwest coast is one of them
and emperor penguin colony the world's most grueling winter is on its way
to have the Emperor's prepared for it by starting new families
they've courted and mated and the eggs are laid
one her pain the mothers want brooded though
the father will and one of the most precarious spot so the whole process
is the hander too many seconds on the ice
and the ache with freaks so it's quickly onto the father's feet
and snuggled unfold skin
the mothers need to go to see producing such a big
has taken a lot out of them they have to eat now
and now be back in the spring home
after a short hike the reach a breaking the ice take a girl purveyor
an end to the element where they're most at home
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as when the fathers they get a lingering sunset
it's the last sunshine LC for more than two months
and the end of the last title to the home
now they have Thomas savage wins nothing to eat
and nothing to do but take their turn at the age of the huddle
and shops along on their heels as they keep their legs off the ice
that is no sub
but they may get some comfort from the moon and the stars and the dancing
southern nights
and business in a comfort to
the instinctive confidence that the Sun will return
and with it their mates
for the mall other penguins have other concerns
there are no islands around may try to board I spent
them
these are chinstrap penguins they
and the other small Penguins won't return to antarctica until spring
the time to read
I see foothold irrelevant course
two birds that fly
storm petrels and fairly pryor's can simply rest on the
and remitting southern plains
bring albatross writes the game
out a few battered Islands including South Georgia
the second largest Penguins the Kings breed here
the chicks have already hatched and they had all together
waiting for their parents to bring some food
kept warm by thick County codes someone like that eventual and I'll feathers
but the first explorers here thought they were a new species
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sometimes the king penguin parent will turn up with food
but these chicks to the albatross chicks generally do without
this young albatross high up on a cliff has been no
said for three months but his parents traveled the south and see
many miles south
and many degrees colder
the Emperor fathers are still in darkness
them as the southern hemisphere begins to tilt back towards the south is ahead
into the new year
in Antarctica the Sun
seems almost shy and his reappearance it won't come clean at the horizon
just skims along beach for a few hours bringing perry did a light
and no warmth I
the temperature is still thirty feel old it's still
deep winter
as if the Sun has sent a signal
it's now that the X church there's now a bird
the hungry one only the matter can do anything
backpack if their mother doesn't bring food in a few days
the father who is himself stopping will have to head for the sea
and leave the check to die from someone out there
mothers are coming
them
up
them
up
when they left for the see it was only a short walk away
since then the winter has extended the sea ice
and the trackback can be a spotter's forty miles
leopard seals and killer whales were waiting for them at the injured keep
going
with the same determination as everyone's
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each mother calls for her mate
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the players celebrate this if i dont
their reunion and it changed
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when the greeting ceremony is over
is time to transfer the chick but the father's been through hell with this
baby
doesn't always find it easy to let go
eventually
with us the cheek
eats at last and Miller fish and squid
quarter mile underwater and added forty mines
a nice now the fathers will finally go
and get two weeks to got all that matters have come back
a chick finds itself abandoned and then
adopt not all the surviving mothers have been able to find their mates
in fact
demand is greater than supply and females will actually fight
a little orphans in the air
has no chance at one female can raise a family by herself
and almost cool abandoned chicks back to get
one parent is needed to keep the cheek warm
while the other goes for food and for the next nine months
the successful fathers and mothers ball to this in ships
making and remaking the long slog over the sea ice
gold
in the early spring it's at its greatest extent sometimes though there are pit
stops
thanks to whittle seals which use it east to keep breathing holes open
Wales make holes to the seals were down their teeth
and into toothless and stop food
the temperature of the water under the ice is below zero
but is kept liquid by the salt content no unprotected human swim and here in
survive
for Antarctic animals is like a warm bath compared to conditions about the
ice
that group and while the top of the ice is bleak and barren
just a few feet down is it busy living world
the
theme
shrimp like cruel staple food in the Antarctic
come here for their winter growth relatively safe from penguins and seals
at least until the ice melts theme this is a world that humans have only
recently been able to explore
and nearly every day something new was discovered down here
well 2005 for instance
scientists show the abundance of cruelty ended largely on the amount of winter
sea ice
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the extended the ice is affected by climate change something many scientists
have come here specifically to study
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one thing labels to establish is at the winter storms around Antarctica getting
more severe
the sea is becoming more treacherous for penguins such as a chin strap
in south Georgia these king penguin chicks on the verge of stopping
very occasionally parents have turned up with food
but mostly chicks at the living off their fact a spring gets closer
the wandering albatross is begin to make regular visits to their next
they can range from for 700 miles a day
gathering food for their trick now the size of a stroke
when spring does come
it comes to these out a Highlands first
the hmm
after this season at sea the king penguins returned
millions on animals come ashore on these outlying
king penguins well it is a member's for warmer climates
this climate change mean that some day keep Swiss Alps
the embers
among the arrivals other three tumble elephant seals
come to fight
winners will have as many as 50 mates
loses old any at all
waves Penguins arise
chin straps
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Gentoo penguin
the whole head high ground
the flamboyant macaroni southern oil easiest and most
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here for the same reason as all the others to produce checks
80,000 king penguin chicks have been surviving on that fact
that parents have been fishing in warmer waters the sometimes as far north as a
stray Leah
and South Africa now they're back on South Georgia
to carry on with the chicks year-long up
in fact raising a king penguin chick takes longer than a year
which means that last summer the adults are still being parents
some numbers on the team
and some are courting performing the penguin
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it's easy to tell which ones are still being parents
only are they not bolting or downs
they're doing a lot of fish looking for a man to
squid miles to the north with the city planting and southern oceans
in the opposite direction
at the coast of Antarctica the sea is slowly warming
and the sea ice is breaking up at its edges I'm
has a lot of ice left Cup near the coast
the sea is a solid as ever the Sun is low
and the midday temperature is 10 below at the Emperor colony
spring has made life easier the edge of the ice is nearer than it used to be
and getting through to the chicks is that much quicker on the other hand the
chicks a growing fast
and out a lot more demanding the parents are in a constant
really race to keep young stomachs field
as the sea ice melts a little more each day so each day
the trip is short
the antarctic is a strange
upside down sort of place
with nothing much on the surface thuds
in
thumb times disease
to get the pigments Obama's but they are and they're flying birds to
this just the on top of desk what the hunt
patients quit like swallows catching insects the
the man
no other birds fly faster under water emperor penguins can hold their breath
20 minutes they can dive beyond the reach of some
am down home
they haven't and the notion that at this time of the year
gets an explosion of new food it happens here
under the crumbling ice at the nursery proficient krill
their refuge is melting and they aren't safe anymore from the Penguins
seals and whales are
the ice is also releasing a booster minerals particular
ir the Sun shining through the ice
sparks the growth of green algae which beat the crowd
that I sound disappears suddenly the crew will have to take that important
place in the wider world
and seeking safety in numbers catherine's
law school schools is she a massive the Antarctic krill
is greater than a mass the total wat month
any other online
mammals and birds come from all over the world to transfer some up that way to
themselves
including animals that are already among the largest
it's cruel in fact makes the biggest Wales
even possible
chin strap Penguins heat almost nothing but crap and that on about 15 million up
one way of assessing the health of the creel is to keep an eye open high on the
chin straps
chin straps can also be indicators of climate change sees get warmer
and krill a concentrated for the South so chin straps come further south
to brief play
colonizers place savedoff ski island
just off the Antarctic coast
it's perfect for them covered in bare rock
exactly what chin straps need for breeding of course being so close to
antarctica
it ought to be covered in snow and ice but it isn't
because avatar xxxii is a hot active
*** and so the Penguins have their own centrally heated Island
with easy access to cram
way
two million
treaty it's the largest chinstrap
para mi world
the payments through the further south actually on the antarctic continent
the dailies and between them
and their colony I'm miles and miles of spring si hice
which means weeks of walking
the trip is longer than many the Empress have to make perhaps
sixty miles nevertheless in white beard
and black tails a set of heap
all from polled
from from from
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deep
hugged
at least a date is don't have to walk to the colony in the winter
this is spring eventually
the beach it patch up and welcome pebbles
on Antarctica side its winds
back to attached to the good the sweeping wind hurricane-force sometimes
keeps the rocks free apps nude
the summer this far south as short most families will be ready to leave in three
months
most the breeding ground is also a graveyard for last year's chicks to
didn't make on
a daily sleep just inside the margins of possibility
any unseasonably bad weather and a whole generation
can be lost preteen
works this way: males get there first pick up nesting spots in court the
females as they arrive the wave at the flippers and occassional
gossip is all the halftime I
most find that old apartments and repairable their nests
the females lay 2x
for at least the first fortnight the males incubate and then they take turns
the chicks
hatch after the month and I fed for another two months
and constant rush hour release keep
just by
as a summer progresses
and the days get longer the ice it's comes closer to the shore
which is convenient because the chicks hungrier than a
the but well cooked leopard seals are hungry to
the dailies have to find ways of dodging
or sneaking past phone
up
by the time the days a twenty-four hours long so other fishing expeditions
the Sun just goes around and around
does that in time to see
melting icebergs rolled through the water like
truck signs
everything rushes to make the most some
macaroni still rock copy
the chargeback food
the emperor penguins on the 24 hour commute to
them
don't from you
in the front
it's been six months since these chicks mid-winter hatching
and now it's demanding its body weight in food every week
for parents there are simply no moments of peace
as soon as a chick sped
it's time to go hunting again from all
sometimes employers will fisher's far north to south america and New Zealand
waters
but usually they don't go beyond Antarctica's scattered islands
it's an area that's also the krill fishery up the chin straps
they messed high in this island's Hills
and between ASEAN the nests is a
Penguins superhit going half coming
for CEO's who screamed at the beach behind traffic
from shorter nesters and
hour's walk not counting said tax
this one involves torrent from a multi place
have in mind chinstrap penguins are sea birds after all
and very tough ones too first the deep sea divers
than the Mountaineers this isn't a stroll up the hillside either
it's real climb and the use it only two feet and a stick supporting
take
its volcanic ash
expose because the strong winds have blown all the snow
the parent is justified repeat the chick
at the other one has deeply for a couple of days will go down and fill up with
clip
one reason the message and secretaries
pace is to avoid creditors
something that's hard to do can stay at least two walks
patsy content Penguins to rate 6
and power in a whole some the calm down
house its
it's possible if anywhere for the payment to be caught
and to get away way despite the torments skewers
its soldiers on
a leopard seal like any other creditor catches the animal so easy is to catch
and this penguin was probably already in poor condition before it was attacked in
fact
the animals on the islands around the Antarctic Peninsula
are to some extent struck by 2005
most the fish were gone scooped up by the huge Antarctic fishing fleet
and shrinking sea ice is reduce krill
by eighty percent this penguin
has been particularly unlike but what's in the future
for all the pains
climate change as elsewhere in the world is having mixed affects
the Antarctic Peninsula that stretches up toward South America
as won't dramatic
the assumption was that the same is happening on the mainland and that
aerial and satellite surveys would confirm that
not so the surveys have shown that more snow than usual is falling on Antarctica
and that the ice cap is actually sickening
around the peninsula them temperatures have risen five times faster
in the world average the
ice is breaking up
ice shelves the size of small countries floated away
antarctica is building up in the middle
and crumbling at the edges
it appears to the continent but virtually no pollution all people
is the one affected by changes in the atmosphere the most
they feed under pack ice and rest from Iceland's
nowadays though
the ice is unreliable %ah
had a lease famously can put up the hardship but these problems on you
where they used to be ice now there's open water and the air is the warmest
it's been since the last
ice age chicks wait for their parents
and what used to be frozen ground but is now
as muddy as a pic style
this colony used to be the most southerly outpost
it's not anymore at the end date is a setting up companies
even further south by following the update is redistribution
sciences concise effect the change in Pacha ice
the date is keeping your experiences
invaders for instance chinstrap penguins
which avoid pack ice do better in places where the update is a sudden the
uncomfortable
for tonight differences are turning up to
the dailies *** use not this year any not before their chicks up bro
so they're stuck in the mud as the long try lights turn into actual sunsets in
short nights
the parents have to go further away from pack ice
food
an apparent comes back his chicks recognize it's called
and the lead away along steeplechase over the rocks
to a place where they can be fitted peace dailies
usually have two chicks each and the most aggressive one is always fit
first has the pack I shrinks who dis cast
skewers a particularly alert two weeks chicks that are not
sometimes
strong chicks attacked as well a frightened penguin often
regurgitates it's cruel and the skewers gratefully
that to
tension between skewers
Penguins increases as summer nears its end both know it's important to
people a
until a few years ago this was solid nice
now
is just broken ice creams and the water is cancelled
the emperor penguin colony
his knee in it and it's ever been to the open sea
the checks this year a very healthy
this seven months old and already as big as adult had a list
being right next to the sea means at their parents have quick access to fish
and squid
and can feed them more frequent
that's the good news the bad news is
that the ice is still melting back and the chicks don't have to swim in
feathers here it's possible that the whole colony
will disappear into the sea ok
up this traveler Enpro colin is on several parts of the Antarctic coast
many are getting smaller some where they can
are moving further south it's not known if a lot of chicks at the drowning
but that's possible to on South Georgia though
a thousand miles to the north the king penguins of lavish
they breed Amanda now used to warmer waters
so climate change smite little difference to their a hundred years ago
they almost went extinct hunted the skin sent me
but now as other penguins decline they could
March South into new territories Kings
out definitely on the up p.m.
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a new generation goes to see
in changing times
there are also witness the Albatross chick is a year old and still growing
but is old enough to start learning to do what albatross is a famous cool
it spent its first went on the nest it was suspended second
on the wing as a new generation is starting again
albatross is the end of summer
is the beginning of the year ok
the new chip will be federal out the autumn and will then be abandoned to
spend winter luck
this time next year
it too was finally graduate to almost petrol
plucked dalian alt
the sea ice is at its minimum with each year warmer than the last
this is the of the
the and preparing this column is called only some swimming birds are left
there's no way of knowing how many of the chicks born nine months ago
mid-winter actually survived
there's more to the story though just more mercy send melting ice
cost effective global warming is so evident in Antarctic
to happen if scientists call working at thirty years ago
have been joined by thousands of us but their findings and not less predictable
just
which include warming up stopped the increase in snow over the continental
ice cap
is make called
air at a temperature of 50 been no spins out at the center in huge cyclones
on
storm force winds and waves then back to the fresh sea ice
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as well as the animals to depend on
the sea can be cold enough to freeze but the autumn storms won't let
in your daily colony on the edge of the continent let's leave that parents
hunkered down
or stranded offshore
but penguins a hearty animals the real killer is what can happen next
the winds can drop the water calms
and the super cold continental here quickly freezes the sea
in
the adl's might make it across but few of the chicks would survive the track
unpredictable storms breakup and refreeze a/c many times he told
a daily checks are growing waterproof feathers as fast as they can
as soon as they are able they follow their parents down to the shore
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the sea is full of heavy jackets chunks of ice
and the youngsters are naturally wary of taking the risk
but what's their choice stay here
and style
they can get very far into the water though an end up skipping across the
broken ice
or the clumsy
trashing and hopping brings up another danger electorate C
it won't get every chick tries for but it knows a good hunting spot when it
sees well
finally the fledglings take their first flight
the any youngsters that didn't take the plunge to quickly isolated and abandoned
as a south pole the Cyclones get even colder
they'll freeze
as autumn advances so does the sea ice
at a nap in just a few miles a day and penguins are driven north
ahead if it's a chin straps
dailies and most of the other penguins will spend the winter that see
fishing
they cling twice
and generally wait for spring
the only one kind is heading south
the Empress home
in
some employers a pioneering new colonies
they may be young pleading for the first time
that may have lost their homes to the sea
they're heading further south to the ice will melt on the web
it will be cold in winter to cold
at the same time under their feet
the fresh sea ice is a proven and topped nursing
in almost total darkness and safe from penguins
krill acrylic
the vital nurses are changing but the climb and a few feet about them
scientists are trying to work out what's changed and way
climatologists in Antarctic in turmoil
biologists say many animals will lose but some
okay
politicians are talking about
some accept the science others say
it's improved intact
nobody really knows where we're headed
as for the Penguins world
they're tough animals
the man
they've coped with an top to conduct on them perhaps they can attack
to its future the
on
mid-winter
any champion father has his a
each one is hungry cold and in the dark
in the most extreme place on earth
the Penguins at the antarctic soldier
Jeremy Paxman start the ball rolling in a new series west let's find out there
ancestry
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