Penguins

Penguins are real athletes

Galapagos penguins that are in trouble, but Magellanics and many other species of penguins.

So penguins are amazing athletes.

Dee Boersma Pay attention to penguins

So, the Arctic has polar bears but no penguins, and the Antarctic has penguins but no polar bears.

So penguins learn from previous experience, too.

I want to talk about penguins today.

You can't find oiled penguins in Argentina.

Why are there even these penguins oiled?

I thought I was going to study the social behavior of Galapagos penguins, but you already know penguins are rare.

You know of The March of the Penguins.

So what happened to those 20,000 oiled penguins?

These are the rarest penguins in the world.

The same thing's true for penguins as well.

And also, we know that it's not only Galapagos penguins that are in trouble, but Magellanics and many other species of penguins.

Penguins are very vocal birds and really, really noisy.

This is sort of the munch of the penguins.

Why else would she release these penguins at me?

She would not stop trying to feed me penguins.

But why should any of you care about penguins?

So when I went to study the Magellanic penguins,

Okay, so here are a few penguins coming in.

My mission as the penguin lady is to raise awareness and funding to protect penguins, but why should any of you care about penguins?

And these are two of the penguins' main breeding islands.

Now, what leopard seals do mostly is, they eat penguins.

Whales and seals and penguins seem to like them too.

Room two had more than 4,000 oiled penguins in it.

This is one of the plights of penguins oil pollution.

So realizing I couldn't catch swimming penguins, she'd get these other penguins and bring them slowly towards me, bobbing like this, and she'd let them go.

And what the penguins show us and these are all the little dots from where the penguins' positions were for penguins in incubation in 2003 and what you see is some of these individuals are going 800 kilometers away from their nests.

And what the penguins show us and these are all the little dots from where the penguins' positions were for penguins in incubation in 2003 and what you see is some of these individuals are going 800 kilometers away from their nests.

And soon, nearly 20,000 penguins were covered with this toxic oil.

So what we're seeing now is very few penguins are oiled.

So now I want to show you that penguins are affected.

And you can imagine being on an island hoping you're going to see penguins, and you're in the middle of an El Nino event and there are no penguins.

Penguins are real athletes They can swim 173 kilometers in a day.

So would it be humanly possible to save this many oiled penguins?

So would it be humanly possible to save this many oiled penguins?

Penguins don't like oil and they don't like to swim through oil.

And the two main threats to penguins today are overfishing and global warming.

And then that wasn't enough she started to flip penguins onto my head.

And simply put if penguins are dying, it means our oceans are dying.

And the two main threats to penguins today are overfishing and global warming.

Because I had just been in the Falkland Islands taking pictures of penguins.