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Drone footage of fledging penguins jumping off cliff
This is a world first.
The National Geographic filmmakers were shooting in Atka Bay on the Ekstrom Ice Shelf, Antarctica in January this year, when they spotted approximately 700 emperor penguin chicks gathering at the edge of a cliff. During this process, the chicks lose their baby feathers and leave their colony for the first time — jumping from an enormous cliff into the ocean to take their first swim. “Filming the fledging of emperor penguins presented a unique set of challenges as the passage only takes place when the sea ice reaches its most unstable time of the year,” National Geographic says in a statement.
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