Posted on 03/31/2008 6:36:35 PM PDT by blam
Flying penguins found by BBC programme
By Neil Midgley, TV & Radio Editor
Last Updated: 1:45am BST 01/04/2008
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.
"The film reveals nature's stunning glory in exciting and unexpected ways, so much so that it defies belief," said Mr Jones.
"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."
Penguins fly to feast on spagetti trees.
And I just washed my car.
The next program in the series will be about flying pigs.
The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, ....
The programme is being presented by ex-Monty Python star Terry Jones, ....
That has to be an April Fools. Looks pretty shopped.
Great pictures. It’s believed that some make it to Virgin Islands and Cancun, where they work as day laborers painting the horizon on horizon pools
I guess if OBAMA can get people to believe he isn’t a muslim, anything is possible.
You think the date of publication might give us a clue? Just asking.
“flying pigs”
You beat me to the punch!
Wow, I can’t wait. Its not sporting to shoot a bird on the ground.
LOL.......I still remember an old Jack Benney line:
“Penquins have no sense of direction”.
I believe it was on his last show!
I guess you had to see it to appreciate it how funny it was.
Awesome pictures- but I vote that this is an April Fool’s article. I think some varieties are able to fly very short distances and fly (or appear to be flying) out of the water and up onto land, but not able to really fly.
That would be correct. Terry Jones, ex-Monty Python is a clue.
OH please can someone with photo shop knowledge insert hitlerys face on the bird that slaps the Osama bird. THAT would be funny!
Even if this story isn't true, there's another thread at FR about an animal accomplishment that's even more extraordinary: an elephant that paints a self portrait.
The video is here
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